MENPES, Mortimer (author). Dorothy MENPES (illustrator). Paris. London; Adam And Charles Black. 1909.
Large 8vo.; publisher's red cloth panelled and decorated in black to spine and upper cover and lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; pp. xii + [3]-185 + [ii]; with a total of 75 fine coloured plates with captioned guards and line drawings throughout the text; a good, sound copy with mottling and fading to cloth, sun-lightening and rubbing to spine, 2 small nicks to lower joint, and a short scuff to bottom edge of lower board, internally fresh and clean throughout with a neat armorial bookplate to upper pastedown endpaper; an elusive title in the series.
First edition.
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