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First edition thus. Hardback with green boards with watered effect, black titles and decorations on spine, front and rear boards. Light bumping at head and base of spine and corners. Mottled coloured endpapers. Ink name on endpaper and name and address, date on ffep. Decorated title page with green illustrations. Cream paper with green decorative borders on each page and small green line drawings and decorated capitals. Some black and white full page illustrations. Drawings and decorations by E Meirion Evans and T J Bond

Thirteen volumes. Dulled spines, bumped corners and spines. Foxed/age toned endpapers. Interiors generally clean and bright, top edges dusty/dulled. Contributors include Max Beerbohm, Henry James, E Nesbit, Kenneth Grahame, John Buchan, Ethel Reed, Ella d'Arcy, George Gissing, Edmund Gosse, Walter Sickert, Anatole France, Aubrey Beardsley, Ernest Dowson, Sir Frederick Leighton etc. With publishers' advertisements and Elkin Mathews and John Lane Belles Lettres catalogues at rear of each volume. Volume 1 April 1894 third edition, contemporary ink owners name and date and WH Smith impressed stamp on ffep. Tissue guards. Volume II July 1894 second edition, small damage to spine, binding a bit shaky, some loose folds, tissue guards, contemporary signature and address on contents page. Volume III October 1894 first edition, gutter starting to split, binding shaky, some folds coming loose, tissue guards, contemporary owners name and WH Smith impressed stamp x2 on ffep. Volume IV January 1895 first edition,… Read More