1897. 270 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Brown cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Cracking to the guttering and tape to the front hinge with moderate tanning to text block edges. Pencil annotation and marginalia throughout with some pages to the middle coming away from the binding. Boards have visible tanning and rubbing with moderate bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and visible tanning to spine as well.