RANDS, W. B.; JOHNSON, R. Brimley (ed.); ROBINSON, Chas. (illus.). Lilliput Lyrics. John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head, London, 1899.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 329 p. 20 cm. 2 colour and 136 b&w line drawings. Cloth hardcover is dampstained with worn corners. Ink signature on front free endpaper. Dampstained frontispiece, tissue guard, and title page as well as fore-edge. Tissue guard has small holes. Pages clean and readable with only minor staining within. Verses selected from Lilliput Levee (1868) and W. B. Rands' contributions to magazines. Published by the Bodley Head, a famous fine press out of London that published works by Aubrey Beardsley, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde. An example of the beautiful binding designs that the firm used on its many publications.

Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada

Rands, W.B.. LILLIPUT LYRICS. Edited by R. Brimley Johnson.. John Lane/Bodley Head, 1899.

Price: US$56.36 + shipping

Description: 1st Ed. 330pp. Colour frontis., colour illus. title page, numerous text ills. by Chas. Robinson. Ills. e.ps., f.e.ps. browned, title page very sl. spotted, some occasional thumbing, original gilt lettered beige pictorial cloth, browned and spotted, head and tail of browned spine bumped and sl. chipped. Osborne pp.76. US$56

Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom