Description
8vo, pp. [iv], 676. Nineteenth-century dark purple straight-grained morocco, boards bordered with a gilt roll and blind rules enclosing a gilt frame and a central gilt monogram with heraldic crest, spine divided by double raised bands, second and fourth compartments gilt-lettered direct, others with a gilt border of double rules connecting cornerpieces, brown chalked endpapers, edges gilt. Lightly toned and spotted. Extremities a bit rubbed, spine showing some creasing and the gilt slightly darkened. Ownership inscription of Alfred Baldwin, Trinity College, to title-page, gilt monogram ‘CY’ below a stag’s head charged with four annulets to boards.