London: Methuen & Co. First edition, first impression (adverts dated 1907; misprint at p.117 reads ‘be be’ for ‘to be’), pp.(iii),442,40(publisher’s adverts), uncut, red cloth, gilt, decorative gilt motifs to spine; pictorial ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to prelims and to fore-edges (occasionally affecting margins), some rubbing to extremities, a very good, rather bright copy. (No dust-jacket).