Decorated binding - slate blue ribbed cloth boards with blue-black lettering on cover and spine - cover has illustration of collector examing a vase, clocks, armour and other collectibles in background. No date of publication - circa 1913. Small points of wear to two corners. Clean, binding is tight, pages and edges are clean, with dark blue top-stained uppoer page edges, clean endpapers. No names or bookplates. Illustrated with photographs, including frontispiece with tissue guard. A few pages have been roughly opened, tearing margins. 339 pages with index.