8vo, pp. 224, cover title, numerous plates, including some folding in colour; spine creased, else a very good copy in the publisher’s colour-printed covers reproducing a design by Lewis; laid in loose is an autograph letter of 30 May 1969 to Bridson from the editor, William Cookson, thanking him for his ‘excellent article on the production of The Human Age – it’s the most interesting piece that has come in for the issue as yet’; and a cutting of a review by Julian Symons.