Fine Books and Manuscripts

Island nights' entertainments, consisting of the Beach of Falsea, The bottle imp, The isle of voices. London: Cassell and Company, 1893. First edition, with hand-corrected price list facing half-title page. Green cloth boards (21 cm. tall), with gilt-stamped design and gilt lettering to front board and spine. Illustrated by Gordon Browne and W. Hatherell, with frontispiece, color map, and 26 black-and-white pages. With 16 pages of ads at rear.