Hardback. xiv,317pp. Illustrated cloth with gilt titles. Black and white frontis and five further plates, mainly by Jules David. Blue cloth with black illustration to front, printed gilt label to spine and gilt titles to front is very clean, though the gilt to the spine is faced and rubbed. Bumped to points. Internal front hinge is split to front endpaper though binding remains tight with little movement. Text is clean. Binding is sound.