The music comes with suggested technique, advice, downloadable audio and is graded by degree of difficulty, so is highly accessible!
If you put the two covers together you have a complete photo of Simon's 1917 Lyon & Healy model A. For those of you in the know, there's also a fun illustration by Hilary James on page 33 of Volume 2. Answers on a postcard please!
The books are obtainable from Simon Mayor's website:
http://www.mandolin.co.uk/