Language: English
Published by London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company Limited, 1893-95, 1893
Seller: MFR RARE BOOKS, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
US$ 3,460.66
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Complete in three volumes; author's presentation copy [volumes I & II bearing the author's presentation inscription on the front endpaper addressed to 'E. R. T. Croxall'; leather-bound; hardcovers; quartos (28.5 x 21.5 cm); pp. [8], 69; [4], [6], 91; [4], [6], 85. English text. Handsomely bound in publisher's original full leather gilt; all page edges gilt; marbled endpapers; 103 full-page plates with captioned tissue guards; decorative initials; tail-pieces; printed footnotes. Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, Downs Park Road, Hackney. Provenance: E. R. Tongue-Croxall's armorial bookplate to front pastedowns. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Bindings tight and secure. Covers rubbed to the spine ends and points. Interiors very well-preserved. Scarce thus. Inscribed by Author(s).