no d/j as issued = green decorated boards VG = pages edges fox, minor bump/rub corners, all ills VG, occasional edge spots = hardback, large octavo, green cloth lettered gilt and blocked with a design in gilt and black, all edges gilt. Scattered foxing although most of the tissue guarded colour plates are unaffected or have foxing only to the reverse. hinge cracked between pp.8/9, 32/33. 1 or 2 of the tissue plate protectors loose or slightly damaged.. Some tan and foxing to f.e.p. and frontis., and also to final few pages, but majority contents clean. bevelled board edges = previous owner's name in pencil to the fep = Illustrated with a chromolithographic frontispiece, title page, and twenty-four further plates BUT plate 1 is missing.... Thomas A. Croal Scottish Loch Scenery London, John Walker, 1882 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated celebration of the Lochs of Scotland. The first edition of this work, with plates after the drawings of Irish-born British wa