Publisher's black cloth with the pale yellow and black dust-jacket which is not price-clipped
chipped along top edge of front panel
Miss Irby and Miss MacKenzie travelled in Serbia and the Balkans from 1861 to 1864
The author was a keen traveller with a self proclaimed insatiable curiosity to known what is just beyond the next corner of the street
limited to 1000 copies of which this is number 286
The Poetical Works of John Milton non-fiction Publisher's black cloth with theReprinted from the Chandos Poets. With Memoir, Explanatory Notes, &c. London, No date, but 1887 or earlier. Most attractive Bumpus edition, who also executed the binding in full black, grained morocco with wine red page edges and panelled spine with circular, gilt and black ornament. Each page of text in set within a single red line frame. Old gift inscription in flowing ink hand dated 1887, though the book itself carries no date. Printed by Morrison