Hardcover, no DJ, pictorial brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Good condition, moderate bumping to corners and spine ends, minor scuffing and staining of covers, binding no longer solid, front end paper has piece of a bookseller's label, and rear endpapers have a bit of soiling, pages beginning to tone, text is bright and clean. Six black-white illustration stamps, tissue between frontispiece illustration plate and title page.