Clean and solid decorated American trade binding, "The New Large Type Edition" printed 1895 - clean blue cloth boards with red, yellow, brown, gold and black decoration, gold banner title boxes on cover; gold title box and multi-color decoration on spine. Very small spot of fraying at base of spine, small spots of wear to two corner tips. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean with clean floral endpapers - no names or bookplates. Sixteen half-tone illustrations from the designs by Heinrich Johann Michael Ferdinand Hofmann; thirteen fine-line wood engravings designed... View More...
