Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller

London: Published by T. Gillard; and S. Knights; and Printed by Alfred Sweeting, 1835. First edition. 4to. (ii), 66 pp. Presentation copy, inscribed by Peel on front paste-down: "Presented by the Author to his Sister Marianne, for her daughter in Law Miss Brown...9th April 1836". Illustrated with a hand-colored lithographed frontispiece and 12 hand-colored lithographed plates, by Peel. Quarter brown morocco over brown cloth-covered boards, stamped in blind and in gilt; all edges trimmed; endpapers renewed, with inscription leaf laid down as front paste-down; small repaired closed tear in upper fore-edge of plate facing p. 17; text likely washed.

Presentation copy of this rare first edition fictional account of an expedition into the Himalayan Mountains.