St. James's Magazine, April to July, Vol. X. [first anonymous appearance in part of: "Adventures of a Queen's Messenger"; "Bertie Bray" by Annie Hall Cudlip; "The Dipplebury Scandal" by Mary Isabella Irwin Brotherton c.1820 1910; "The Man In Chains" by Charles James Collins; Poems: "A Token" and "Halcyone" by Robert Williams Buchanan

8vo size, 540pp, half calf with marbled boards, gilt title on contrasting label and gilt rules to spine, faint small shelf label at base of spine, some scuffs and a dent on lower fore edge but overall binding sound and very firm, title page and prelims lightly spotted and a bit age marked but overall contents very clean, overall very good Note, engraved bookplate of R Cameron Galton, Bickley Grange, on front paste down. Robert Cameron Galton (1830-1866), a noted amateur photographer.