SPEAKING LIKENESSES by ossetti, Christina - 1874

London: Macmillan, 1874. First edition, first issue 1874, small 8vo,185 x 120 mm; pp. viii, 96. Frontispiece plate (with tissue guard), title vignette and 10 illustrations by Arthur Hughes. Original publisher's pictorial blue cloth, gilt illustration and lettering to front cover, gilt lettering to spine; all edges gilt; original brown coated endpapers. Binding very good with a little light rubbing to edges, lower corners slightly bumbed, cloth lightly marked to front board. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, no foxing, paper lightly toned. A very good first edition copy. Alice in Wonderland type fantasy stories.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. by Arthur Hughes.. 8vo. book.