London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. First edition. 8vo measuring 8 x 5.25 inches: 247 pages. Publisher's orange cloth boards with cream dust jacket, top edge stained red. Dust jacket chipped, soiled, and rubbed; boards edgeworn; age-toned and foxed throughout. Good in a Fair dust jacket. 

Basil de Selincourt, writing for The Observer upon publication, declared: "Here is a book which, if you feel as I am convinced we all must come to feel unless we are to remain unworthy for ever of this beautiful earth that nurses us, will pierce you to the heart... I do hope a great many, of all kinds, will read Mr. Gibbon's book!"