A good solid copy of the second impression 1905. Decorated red cloth covered boards with gilt titles. A little bumping to the corners and rubbing to the extremities; teg, deckled edges and some pages as yet, uncut ! Inscribed ' With the Author's Compliments Feb 28 1906' on the ffep. 84 photographic plates. A fascinating assessment of Russia in the aftermath of the Russo - Japanese War with ''....this vast mass of people uneducated and elemental as yet, seething in the melting-pot of political and social change, about to develop into something new and unknown.'' !