Around a Cornfield [expressed on the front cover as Corn-Field ] by Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt [ Uncle Matt ] - 1895

London, Edinburgh and New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1895 Postage will be reduced for this light item. Hardback,120mm x 180mm tall (4.75" x 7,25" approx.). 98pp with 26 line-drawn text figs. plus two [one a frontispiece] attractive chromo colour plates each with four illustrations; plus 16pp of Publisher's adverts, with illustrations. Prize label to the front pastedown from Edinburgh Merchant Company School, George Watson College for Boys, Headmaster Geo. Ogilvie, M.A., LL.D.and signed by the teacher, one Jean Rosie Davidson, awarding the book to a David Gilchrist of Class F, 1st Div. as a prize for 6th. Arithmetic in the Session 1896-7. Endpapers toned and light rubs to hd/tl of spine and a few inconsequential external marks, otherwise very good, in the original colour-illustrated, turquoise cloth-covered boards/gilt titles. An uncommon edition and binding.. First Edition. Decorated Cloth. Very Good/No d/w. Sm 8vo..