Hardbound 8o in publisher's blue cloth with needlework decorations and gilt lettering on front board and spine. Top edge blue. Slight bump to one corner and a few light spots on rear board. The empty endpapers uniformely browned. Old name up on frton free endpaper. No dust jacket, as issued. With coloured frontispiece behind tissue-gard, title-page in red and black and many full-page black and white illustrations. A pleasent book !386 p.