"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke
London: Robert Riviere and Son, n.d. [c.1920]. [English Literature] FINE LIMP LEATHER BINDING. In five volumes, octavo (18 x 12cm). Attractively printed and bound by Riviere with five colour plate frontispiece illustrations by Charles Brock. Full royal blue limp morocco tooled in gilt to spines with an elongated triple gilt ruled rectangle with decorative centre device, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Contents clean, same ink ownership to half titles, spines pleasingly aged. A pretty little set; very good indeed. Unusual in the publisher's leather as most were issued in cloth. Item #71525
Price: £1,250.00
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