1898. No Edition Remarks. 272 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece and illustrations. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Hinges are heavily cracked with exposed netting. Moderate crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Binding is loose with faint thumb marking throughout. Pen markings to half title page. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends and corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards. Book has a moderate forward lean.