245 pages, indexed, black and white plates. The front of the jacket is torn and creased at the head and thespine and back chipped, also at the head. A serious fault id that the thread at the head of the spine has snapped, making that section, up to page 55, loose. Otherwise the book is clean and unmarked. Cecil McKay was director of the Sunshine based H. V. McKay Massey Harris, famous for the McKay Harvester. He is also prominent in Victorian rowing history.