"Beware of the person of one book."
— Thomas Aquinas

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1898. [Victorian Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vi; 343; [9]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top and fore-edge untrimmed. Dark brown coated endpapers. Largely unopened. With a bookseller's postcard bill loosely inserted, addressed to Goulden and Curry..... More