Description
Item Description: | 2250 |
Physical Description: | 2 v. viii, 320 p. ; viii, 319 p., [1] ill., frontis. 20 cm. |
Binding Note: | Binding: Green textured cloth. The front cover stamped in black with a design of leaves within a frame (a double frame in volume one and a triple frame in volume two); the back blind-stamped with a centre motif and quadruple frame. The spine has green lettering in relief on a gold ground, and black stamped leaf design. Pale yellow end leaves (dark grey endleaves in Sadlier but he notes the existence of copies with yellow). Top edges untrimmed. |
Bibliography: | Forty wood engraved plates by Luke Fildes (two of them as frontispieces). The order of the plates is as noted in Sadlier with two exceptions: The plates which Sadlier lists as facing pages 83 and 114 are facing pages 82 and 115 in the Farmleigh copy. Sadlier 44. PP3 L34. |