This book was delivered new as an archive copy for a large library, but was unable to be catalogued and thusly replaced due to being bound in the wrong cover (the binding of a completely different book).

This hardbound volume has since been professionally recovered in a beautiful, durable, high-quality teak vinyl, with new end papers (pictured - the paper fixed inside the front and back covers that conceals the wrap-around edges of a book's covering).

I must say that this and a handful of other books given the same treatment look rather beautiful, and with extra durability of the new resilient and waterproof covering.

The book is in new condition, crisp and never read. It has simply been recovered (may bear minor imperfections due to hand craftsman nature of the work) and may bear the odd stamp or tidy cataloguing note in pen or pencil.