Description
frontispiece with faint offset browning from tissue guard, numerous illustrations to the letterpress, neat contemporary inscription to recto of frontispiece, pp. [x], 192, [2], crown 8vo, original red cloth, rondel Tenniel vignettes stamped in gilt to both boards within a triple fillet border backstrip lettered in gilt, this a little softened at head and rubbed at ends, rubbing at corners also with some light handling to both boards,, spine a little cocked, a.e.g., black endpapers, the ebbing exposed at head of rear hinge, but all secure, very good