Published by Gardiner & Co, Wisbech and Marlborough & Co, London, 1898, 1st edition. Original blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, gilt crest to front cover, no dustwrapper. Teg. 10.25ins x 6.75ins, xvi, 503pp plus 22 plates a coloured folding map and a text illustration. Also diagrams, illustrations and a map within the text. All present as required. Free endpapers browned. Presentation inscription (2nd prize for best estimate of the poll at the Municipal elections of 1905) to verso of front free endpaper. Overall a VG copy of an uncommon title.