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

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895. [English History] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a popular edition in two volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 776 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 820 [2]. Contemporary brown calf for Clifton House School, Eastbourne, with gilt titles and decoration to spines, and a gilt school stamp to the upper board of each volume. All edges and endpapers marbled. Black ink prize inscription to verso of front free endpaper in each volume, to J.G. Pring for the Cambridge University Local Examination 1898. Light spotting to preliminaries. Spines sunned with a few small marks to boards. Very good. Item #52391
Price: £125.00