"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C. S. Lewis

London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, no date [circa 1860s]. [Christian Allegory] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.xvi; 400 [2]. With over 100 full page and in-text wood engravings by Selous and Priolo, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red full panelled morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles, and blind decoration to spine. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers, and gilt dentelle to turn-ins. Black ink ownership to verso of fly-leaf, dated 1909. A 2cm tear to lower edge of fly-leaf. Small green bookseller's label to front pastedown. Light spotting throughout; more heavily to first and final leaves. Moderate general wear to binding, with some sunning to spine. Very good. A lovely illustrated edition of the seventeenth-century English spiritual classic. Item #59503
Price: £150.00