London: George Allen, 156, Charing Cross Road, 1902.
Price: $175.00
Hardcover. First edition. 12mo. Illustrated with color plates and wood engravings in text. Prize binding by Bickers & Son in contemporary tree calf with gold tooling on both boards, arms “Sequamur Lumen” stamped in gold on front board, gilt spine divided into six panels with maroon and black leather titling labels, gold tooling on the edges of the boards, turn-ins stamped in blind, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Printed presentation bookplate (completed in manuscript, dated 1915) on front pastedown. Rubbing to the joints and edges of the boards, the maroon titling label is torn at one corner, about near fine. A handsome signed prize binding: “Bickers & Son, Leicester Sq.”.
Item #438884
