The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1887. Octavo in dark brown leather boards, lavishly blind-stamped and ornamented; raised bands to spine; AEG; marbled endpapers with gilded and stamped fine detail to board inner edges; b/w frontis with original tissue; 204 p., front., numerous b/w plates; 25 cm. Very Good(+) with mild shelfwear and superficial scuffing to corners and edges, incl. spine; two pages mild browning, probably from paper once laid in but now removed; ; binding slightly starting between pages 108-109 only. All in all a nice strudy copy of this exceptional binding. Elegant large personal owner signature of one Annie Laurie Small to front FEP. Hardcover.

A remarkably ornate and handsome binding, with no credit as to binder. Illustrations "drawn by W.S.J. Harper, E.H. Garrett and others, engraved, and printed under the supervision of A.V.S. Anthony"