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First edition, first printing. Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (19.5cm x 13cm x 4cm); pp. viii, 482. English text. Bound in publisher's original green cloth; gilt titles to spine; blind-panelled boards; brown coated endpapers; advertisements for other works of the author on the verso of the title; 3-line errata slip tipped-in prior to chapter I; tables and charts throughout; printed footnotes; index to rear. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Slight bumping to spine ends. The covers very well-preserved. Light marking to endpapers and spotting to prelims, else a clean copy and without previous ownership markings. A handsome example of the scarce first edition.