The Palace in the Garden.

Molesworth (Mrs. [Mary Louisa])

The Palace in the Garden.

Illustrated by Harriet M. Bennett.

Description: FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and illustrations to the text (including some full-page), pp. viii, 298, [2, ads], crown 8vo, original beige cloth, the lettering and decorations in gilt, overall dustsoiling, the upper board with faint waterstaining at bottom corner, small hole to lower joint and some light wear at extremities, the hinges a little cracked, those at rear with webbing showing through, textblock strained in places with some gatherings standing a little proud (but all secure), slightly later nineteenth-century ownership inscription to verso of flyleaf, free endpapers browned, fair

Publication Details: Hatchards, 1887

Notes: A scarce book. In his 'Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man', Sassoon mentions this, and the author's 'Four Winds Farm', as 'almost my favourite books'.

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