1951. First Edition. 383 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated red cloth with gilt lettering. Contains colour illustrated plates. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Pencil marginalia to pages. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Binding is shaky. Text-block is loose from binding. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth. Book is slightly forward leaning. Green sticker to spine.