1895. Thirty-Nine Thousand. 343 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrations throughout. Publisher's catalogue to rear. Textblock completely detached from covers. Rear endpaper and last page of the catalogue detached but still present. Some cracking to gutters throughout, binding is loose. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to edges and towards the start and end of the book. Pencil inscriptions to reverse of frontispiece. Brown staining to pages on occasion, more pronounced to pages 205-210. Text still legible. Thumb-marking present. Small hope to top edge of half title page. Front free endpaper taped to pastedown. Boards have moderate edge wear with corner bumping. Visible tanning to spine and edges with some crushing to spine ends. Small splits to spine ends and corners, cloth is slightly frayed and chipped. Black marks with mild water staining overall.