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Fowey, Cornwall: Fowey Cottage Hospital Bazaar, 1912. Limited First Edition. Quarter Decorated Morocco Slipcase and Chemise. Cloth Cover. . Very Good Plus. No. 7 of 300 limitation. 8vo. 19 by 12.5 cm. 31 pp. Three stories, the third, "The Czarina's Violet", making its first appearance here and later included in Quiller-Couch's popular work, "In Powder and Crinoline". Setting apart this copy is the lovely Art Nouveau styles, quarter morocco slipcase, with a gilt and red floral design onamenting the spine with its raised bands. Scattered surface abrasion spots on the leather. Soiling of part of the white cloth cover of the book proper. Leaves within are clean.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Printed by Henry Stone and Son, Banbury, 1913. Limited Edition. Full Morocco. Very Good Plus. N.d., Folio. 31.5 by 26 cm. xii, 13-164 pp. 26 mounted color plates. Modern full blue morocco. Original pictorial endpapers. In rebinding, archival tape used at hinge. In rear, this tape is more conspicuous than ideal. Pages clean, mounted plates, bright. This copy is virtually identical to limited first edition other than there is no limitation page, no signature, no date.

London: Thomas Tegg, 1816. First Edition. Cloth with Slipcase. Good Plus. Rowlandson, Thomas. 4to. Half red morocco slipcase. 27 handcolored plates, including fold-out frontis, and one sepia plate, by Rowlandson. viii + 252 pp. Page numbers 73/74 repeated, different content. A fair amount of soilage to the fold-out frontis, with small chip in right margin. Tape repair on backside of one fold. Some light soilage in rest of book, a few spots a bit grubby, but generally more toned than soiled, and much of text and plates otherwise clean. Colors of plates fresh and bright. Slipcase is half morocco over red cloth. Inner folder missing ribbon but otherwise clean. Outer box very solid but some scuffing to leather on spine. Spine with raised bands. Spine browned slightly from red as appears on front and rear. Slight discoloration to red cloth, top 1/2 inch, on one side. Otherwise slipcase only minor shelfwear. Contemporary boards are soiled. Spine rebacked, partly preserving original title label.