London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited, No date [circa early 1940's]. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. Unpaged, but [122]pages. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and 12 other full-page colour plates, plus full-page line drawings and smaller illustrations within the text. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Pictorial dust-wrapper. 4to. 25 x 18.6 cm. Tiny tear at foot of title [6mm]; one other tear in the fore-edge of a leaf of text; wrapper price-clipped; else a lovely copy.