Black beauty: The autobiography of a horse. by SEWELL (Anna) - 1899

London, Jarrold & Sons, 10 & 11, Warwick Lane, E.C., 1899. 10pp. commercial and publisher’s advertisements on text-paper precede half-title, the outermost serving as paste-down; commercial and publisher’s advertisements on verso of half-title, title, and Contents leaves; final leaf commercial advertisements, serving as paste-down; two wood-engraved illustrations in text; pale grey-green boards, cut flush, applied spine, printed in red and black on sides, in red up spine, the back cover bearing commercial advertisements. Small piece chipped from front cover towards spine, showing underlying cloth binding strip, larger pieces from head and tail of spine; covers creased along edge of binding strip; poor quality paper lightly embrowned throughout; otherwise a nice copy. Issued at sixpence. There was also an issue in cloth at 2/- and another in heavier boards at 1/-. First published in England in 1877. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated.