London

Fine paper edition. 304pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece, title page printed in red and black, silk ribbon marker bound in, decorated endpapers. Bound in red calf’s leather, with gilt lettering and decorations on spine, all edges gilt (boards are worn, lightly rubbed at edges, a little chipped and scuffed around spine, ribbon marker thinned and fraying at end). Previous owner’s name, dated 1907, on tanned half-title page, tissue guard lightly spotted, some of which has transferred mildly to opposing faces. Besant’s complete history of London with chapters headed: After the Romans; Saxon and Norman; Plantagenet; Tudor; Charles the Second; George the Second. 16mo. A lovely, compact vintage volume showing the patina of age and use.