I am delighted to agree with every positive comment made about this wonderful book with the following personal reservation which I have now learned to live with :0)

My copy was bought from Waterstones online and I today called into a Waterstones store to air my concerns about the intrusion of the print from two pages ahead of the page being read.
Two staff members confirmed that this was inevitable in view of the poor quality of the paper used. They confirmed that this happened in some other books in varying degrees to keep production costs down.
I was shown three other books chosen at random two of which had very slight transparency with the third being almost fully opaque. I would have been delighted with the quality any of the three. Those who have "Bert" will know where I am coming from.

Completely unprompted I was offered a full refund or another copy if I were happy with the copy in stock.
As expected the stock copy was identical mine but without the two damaged corners so I accepted the exchange.

Great to be now able to explore the delights of a wonderful book!!