1896 D. Appleton and Company. New and revised edition. Half-bound hardcover in brown leather over marbled boards. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Top edges gilt. Black & white frontispiece and one other plate, both with a tissue guard. Black and white illustrations. 363 pages. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Leather worn at corners, spine edges, and spine ends, with an eight-inch loss at the head of the spine. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Name in ink on front free endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.