The Early fiction Of Richard Jefferies. by JEFFERIES (Richard) - 1896

Edited by Grace Toplis. With a rare portrait. London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamiltin, Kent & Co Ltd[;] Wells, Somerset: Arthur Young, 1896. Med.8vo, printed throughout in red and black on thick, textured, mould-made paper; half-title with limitation notice on verso precedes fine-screen half-tone portrait frontispiece on special, toned, paper; tissue guard to frontispiece and integral advertisement leaf at end here lacking pp.[xviii (including frontispiece)]+210^{ex 212}; rebound in green buckram lettered gilt on spine; t.e.g., others uncut. Class-mark in gilt on spine, but no other signs of library use; light dusting or embrowning to uncut edges; otherwise a nice copy. One of an edition limited to 50 copies, this copy being numbered ‘50 i’. It was originally published in smooth black cloth ruled gilt on spine, lettered gilt on front cover and spine. The book was reprinted the same year on smaller paper, the imprint on the title-page reading: ‘Printed by Arthur Young, Diocesan Printing Works, Wells, Somerset, for Simpkin, Marshall 1896’, and bound in a bevelled smooth blue-green cloth, similarly ruled and lettered.Five stories originally published in the ‘North Wilts Herald’ in 1866, and here making their first appearance in book form: Traits of the Olden Time; A Strange Story; Henrique Beaumont; Who Will Win; and Masked. In this copy p.xiv, l.17, has the reading ‘indalged’ for ‘indulged’, probably as always. Matthews & Miller B28.1. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated.