London: Virtue and Company Limited, 1936. First edition, folio, pp.xv,308,(8) adverts, textured decorative claret cloth, gilt, top edges red, illustrated with colour and b/w plates, loose folding plate for a gondola design; occasional fingermarking to margins, light foxing to edges, 2cm tear to cloth over spine, spine lightly rolled, rubbing to extremities, overall very good.