1921. No edition remarks. 435 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Colour illustration plates. Fold-out maps at rear. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding slightly loose. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Front endpapers heavily marked. Water staining to rear of textblock. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Some mild marks and staining to surfaces. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear.