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Stories of Waterloo. CRISP COPY IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING WITH CUTTINGS
Sm. 8vo., with engraved frontispiece, and engraved and printed titles, engraved title lightly dust-soiled, neat contemporary signature on on printed title; attractviely bound in contemporary halF calf, marbled boards, back with five raised bands, second compartment with green leather labeL ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, red sprinkled edges, ochre endpapers, joints mildly rubbed else a very good, firm copy. With the nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of John W Trist FSA FSI, and the binder's ticket of Cunningham & Son of Ashton under Lyne, on front paste-down. The same owner has augmented this copy by mounting numerous relevant cuttings on endpapers and preliminaries at front and rear. A later issue of the first Bentley Standard Novels edition of 1833 (engraved title so dated) but with no sign of the usual BSN titling. The frontispiece is by Greatbatch after Pickering. Sandler (2305) records a still later edition.
Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · Thakeham, GB77,34 €
