"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1861. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.226, 16 of adverts. Bound in publisher's blind stamped green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Bookseller's label of "Kerby and Son" of Oxford Street to front pastedown. Two plates and numerous in text illustrations. Catalogue at rear dated November 1861. Slight reading lean, some light spotting to prelims. Rear hinge starting with gauze showing but still soundly bound. Some light wear to the extremities of the cloth. Very good. Item #46776
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