The cover is a royal blue color cloth with bright gilt decoration. The backstrip cloth is somewhat faded to a more matte blue and the white decoration is lightly faded. There is a white spot on the lower backstrip as visible from the first picture. The back cover is good. The endpapers have a blue floral motif with a private collection sticker on the right endpaper. The pre-title pages are heavily foxed. There is a detailed illustration on the frontispiece. The interior pages are crisp / stiff and white with occasional foxing throughout. There is heavy foxing on the outer edge of the pages. The book is full of full and half-page black and white illustrations.