Green cloth-covered boards with gilt, green, and red decoration of lions and roses on the front cover. Covers are scuffed and stained with corners and spine bumped. There is a gouge on the front cover over the author name. Cream endpapers with an annotaiton on the rear pastedown and a previous owner's name inscribed on the front free endpaper. Black and white frontispiece and tissue guard still present and in tact. Binding is sound. Pages are otherwise free from underlining, highlighting, and marginalia.