First edition, 1912. No dust jacket. Blue pictorial cloth boards with gilt lettering. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with some foxing. Boards are mildly rub worn, with some light shelf wear to spine, edges and corners, corners are bumped. Slight crushing to spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges. At least three of the photograph pages are known to be lose in the book but are in their place. Page 54: the photograph of a spider is torn partly.