On 29 Aug, 17:33, John Dann wrote:
Thanks for the pointers everyone. I managed to get a copy from Biblio
for £3.99 (plus the same again for 2nd class post). The copy I
received was a hardback in non-mint but generally good condition. It
seems to have belonged to Cornwall County Library, but was last taken
out in 1980 and is marked 'withdrawn' so has probably found its way
legitimately on to the used market. It's a 3rd edition dated 1969 - I
guess I could have asked here what was the latest available edition
but presumably 1969 is not too out-of-date for most of the issues that
it covers.

JGD

The latest (and presumably now last) edition is dated 1982, but you're
right - descriptions on sites etc haven't changed all that much from
the 1969 version (I have both).

As I recall, one of the main improvements was in the updating of the
cloud pictures, some of which were distinctly long in the tooth in the
1969 edition, and if I remember rightly the original printing plates
had been lost anyway when the HMSO press was relocated out of the
Bracknell building, so new photographs were included, including a
number of mine as it happens.

--
Stephen Burt
Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire