Meredith, George

8vo (171 x 108mm), FIRST EDITION, half-title, final gathering unopened, errata slip at the end, original green cloth blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt, cream endpapers, preserved in brown morocco pull-off case

Mrs J. Insley Blair, sale of books from her library, Sotheby's New York, 3 December 2004, lot 200

Buxton Forman 1; Collie XXXVI; Hayward 270

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing where appropriate
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AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY OF  THE FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S SCARCE FIRST BOOK, the publication of which he funded himself. He later disowned the work although it was praised at the time both by Tennyson and Charles Kingsley.