Thick blue cloth HB,beautiful colour pastedown on cover,corners and spine ends bumped and pastedown slightly faded,lovely embossed gold gilt lettering on cover and spine,inner front cover inscribed,pages slightly browned,marked and have a few small nicks,beautiful colour and BW plates and line drawings,book loose and internally torn along spine but together,all plates in great condition,beautifully illustrated by W.Reynolds,C.E.Brock,Arch Webb,J.E.Sutcliffe,E.W.Jackson, Elizabeth Earnshaw and many more,beautiful illustrations,lovely slightly worn vintage annual book