New York.The MacMillan Company. 1909. xiii, 262pp. plus 2pp. adverts to rear. 12 black & white plates including frontispiece. Profusely illustrated throughout text with photographs, diagrams and drawings. Original publisher's cloth gilt. t.e.g. Octavo. First edition. Bookplate, and remains of earlier plate to front paste-down endpaper. Spine a trifle worn to head and heel and top edge, with some very slight wear to board corners; front inner joint ctacked but firm; else an handsome copy.