Publisher's Synopsis
FIRST TRADE EDITION, first issue (with incorrect listing of illustration, pp.304-305), photogravure frontispiece, 53 plates and illustrations by various artists, 4 folding maps, faint spotting to half-title and title-page, occasional faint spots to borders, pp. 672, stout 4to, original brown buckram with decoration in gilt to upper board, backstrip gilt lettered and very gently faded, top edge brown, others untrimmed and lightly spotted, publisher's subscription slip laid in at front, buff dustjacket, lightly dustsoiled overall and a touch chipped and nicked at extremities, very good
