Hard cover book with unclipped dust jacket that has some shelf wear but now has a protective plastic cover. Original dust jacket has grazing to corners and spine ends, light grazing along spine creases, chipping, grazing and some small tears belong the top edge, see photos for detail. Yellow cloth covered boards are in good condition, with light denting to corners and some grazing to spine ends, see photos, also some light foxing to mostly the edges. Text block edge has foxing. First and last few pages have foxing, remaining pages throughout book have light boxing to edges, pages otherwise clean and clear throughout. Text block is in good condition, all pages in place with sound hinges. Illustrated with black-and-white images throughout the book and one colour plate at the beginning. Overall condition of this beautiful book is very good.