Price: US$256.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition.152 pp. Original brown cloth gilt, variant dark blue eps. 8 mounted chromo plates by Walter Crane or Kate Greenaway. Very good hardback. Schuster & Engen 167 (1b).
Seller: Elaine Beardsell, HOLMFIRTH, United Kingdom
various. The Quiver of Love. Marcus Ward & Co., London, 1876.
Price: US$384.80 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Large 8vo (220 x 165 mm.), publisher's cloth with leather onlay on upper cover, the whole ornately gilt. Sole edition thus: Marcus Ward published a smaller format version under the same title four years later. Pp. [7], 8-152, 7 chromolithographed plates plus additional chromolithographed title-page, as called for. Very fine - a virtually pristine copy, the binding detail sharp, internally clean and crisp, retaining loose plate-guards, the slightest bumping to lower corners. Uncommon in commerce and rare in this condition.
Seller: Richard Smith, Aldershot, United Kingdom