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

London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, no date [circa 1850's]. [Christian Spirituality] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (28 x 20cm), pp.[6] 670 [4]; pp.[6] 1300 [2] cxxxvi [4]. With 31 steel-engraved plates, each with a tissue guard, including a frontispiece to each volume and a decorated title page to volume I. Contemporary dark green diced calf, with gilt titles to brown labels, further gilt tooling to spines, and gilt roll-tooling to board edges. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers, and gilt dentelle to turn-ins. Toning to tissue guards, with some spotting to blanks and facing leaves, and a little to the plates and surrounding leaves. Largely crisp and clean. Light wear to bindings and some bumping to corners, with some gentle colouring to joints and corners. Very good. Item #60391
Price: £325.00