1879. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Volume VI. Issues rebound into one, with separate pagination. Pages are lightly tanned with moderate foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Moderate cracking to hinges, with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Crinkling to gutters, with rubbing and a few small nicks along text block edge. Minor dog-eared corners. Pencil inscription to front paste-down. Slight creasing and tearing to front fee endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with notable bumping and scuffing to corners, and rubbing to surfaces. Book has a slight forward lean. Moderate tanning to spine and edges, with visible crushing and fraying to spine ends. Slight splitting to spine ends. Mottled mould to upper edges.