1894. Author's Copyright Edition. 308 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine and front. Publisher's adverts to rear. Pansy AKA Isabella M Alden. Includes illustrations. Pages are rather marked with pronounced tanning and foxing, plus thumbing. Foxing more noticeable towards the start and end of the book and on text block edges. Previous owner's inscription to pre title page. Price sticker to front endpaper. Frontis tissue guard heavily foxed, torn, partly stuck to title page. A few dog eared corners. Boards have some edge wear, with pronounced bumping and rubbing to corners, while spine ends are crushed and frayed. Heavily water stained, scratched, rubbed and marked overall. Book has an intense forward lean. Gilt is bright.