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8vo., ?Second Edition, on laid paper, with coloured frontispiece, 3 coloured plates and 8 plates in monochrome; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, pictorial cloth from original board and backstrip mounted on new and separate leaves at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 16pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Skilton gives 1905 as the date of the first Brock edition, but with only 8 plates. This edition, published in Seeley's 'Prince's Library' series, adds four coloured plates to the original eight in monochrome found in other versions of the same text, including the same publisher's 'Scarlet Library' issue. AN ELEGANT COPY OF SCARCE EDITION.