Young Barbarians

viii, 316pp. Tissue-guarded monochrome plate frontis and15 further plate illustrations. Title page printed in red and black. Publisher’s cloth boards, decorated and illustrated with four colour printing. Spine illustration. Top edge gilt, all others deckled. Boards worn all over, rubbed through at corners and spine tips, lightly fraying at spine ends. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper, dated 1901. Gutter cracked between front endpaper, with some spotting throughout. One plate loose. ‘A story of life in Muirtown. The French Count, a lonely man in a foreign land, who so conquered the prejudice, especially strong in Scotch hearts, against his race, that when he died he was followed to his grave by every boy in Muirtown Seminary’.