St Marys Books

Beautifully bound in green cloth with decorative embossed detail to the boards and small gilt pictorial to the front. Ornate gilt decoration and titles to the spine. Re-backed with the original cloth laid onto new. The binding is in overall good condition with just light discolouration to the rear. All edges of the text block gilt. Yellow end-papers with no cracking to the internal hinges, binding tight. Beautiful folding frontispiece illustration slightly creased but intact, several black and white line drawings within the text. pp. vi + 149 + publishers' list. Overall a good copy of a scarce book. From Major Beeton's Private Collection.