1905. Reprinted. 403 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout by George Cruikshank. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to hinges with exposed netting. Binding loose. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Boards are slightly bowed.