Small thin purple cloth HB with gold gilt lettering and decoration on cover,corners and spine ends bumped and cover slightly marked but good,book slightly loose,illustrated endpapers of ten boys and girls on the road from long ago till now,front endpaper has piece cut out,pages browned and slightly marked with a few small nicks,48 beautiful colour plates by George Morrow,few faint small marks and ticks to pages,slightly worn and marked but great history book beginning with the ancient Britons and concluding with King Georges visit to India