Price: US$552.57 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition thus, 1875. The Roxburghe Club. Top edges gilt. Page edges uncut. Some very light foxing throughout and to uncut page edges. Endpapers age toned and lightly foxed. Publishers half brown leather and red paper covered boards. Corners rubbed and slightly frayed. Spine is lightly rubbed and with a small area rubbed. Generally a very good solid copy. Scarce. 196 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: Large quarto. xxviii, 199 pp. Title-page in red and black, wood-engraved headbands, tail-pieces and initial letters. Quarter brown leather over red paper boards, gilt, flat spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Binding extremities and edges of boards lightly worn. Still, a very good copy. First edition. Printed from the 1558 manuscript, previously unpublished. Presented to the Club by John Benjamin, Baron Heath, FRS,noted consular-diplomat, banker, and director of the Bank of England. Roxburghe Publication No. 101.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.