THE PRIZE RING. Illustrated by Reproductions of Old Prints, several Oil Paintings, and of the famous Byron Screen.

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32.5x26cm (12¾" x10"). Limited to 1000 copies for sale in Great Britain and America, this No. 137. ppXI(1)137(3) with colour frontispiece and a further 40 colour & other plates (all with loose tissue-guards), and index. Top edge gilt. Original quarter leather with pebble-patterned paper-covered boards, spine titled in gilt, front board titled in red on gilt-bordered leather roundel. Head and foot of spine and front hinge a little rubbed, rear hinge slightly so. Front board and roundel with a few minor scratchmarks, roundel also slightly grazed. Lower outer corners of boards rubbed and a little bumped & curled, upper outer corners slightly so. Paper loss at edges around lower outer corners, slight loss at edges around tips of upper outer corners, and very slight loss at one or two spots along edges elsewheres. Lower edge of rear board slightly bruised along some 10cm from spine. No dust jacket. Pages 134 & 135 of index spotted; margins of page IX and corresponding areas of blank page VIII opposite, upper margins of leaf facing Plate XX, and pages 133, 136 & 137 of index lightly & sparsely spotted. Occasional faint & sparse spotting elsewheres. Leaf facing Plate XL with minor production flaw, being untrimmed along 1.5cm of upper edge at outer corner, the remnant folded into upper margin of recto, the fold not quite flush with text-block - the appearance of which unaffected. Tips of a number of lower outer corners a little curled and/or lightly creased. A few tissue-guards creased. Fore- & lower edges of text-block lightly & sparsely spotted; untrimmed lower edge also toned, and fore-edge slightly so. Binding holding firmly and of pleasing appearance, contents generally clean and tight. VERY GOOD copy. (Heavy item, overseas shipping at cost.). N° de ref. del artículo 27105

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