St Marys Books

Beautifully bound in full green leather with embossed decorative front and rear board. Spine has five raised bands with gilt ruled borders in between, red title band with bright gilt titles. Binding is generally in good condition with minor scuffing and light bumping to the corners. There should be a gilt ruled border to the front and rear boards unfortunately this has faded in places. All edges of the text block are gilt and although slightly dulled along the top edge all are still quite bright. Marbled end-papers. Previous owners ink inscription dated 1936 and smudges possibly ink to the front free end-paper. Slight cracking to the internal hinges although the binding is still fairly tight. Foxing to the prelims especially to the frontispiece and title page and occasionally throughout. Pages otherwise are clean. Text in English and double columned. pp. iii + 319. Overall a good copy.