Title: Rasselas, a Tale. >>MINIATURE LITERARY ...
Publisher: Jones and Company. 3, Acton Place, Kingsland Road. London.
Publication Date: 1832
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
160 printed pages, engraved frontispeice, engraved additional title-page. 160 printed pages. Engraved title page and portrait frontispiece (slight foxing). Ex libris of Edwards Dyson on front paste-down endpaper with his neat ink signature above. Provenance: Edwards Dyson [1810-1886] Son of John Dyson. Born at Willow Hall, Halifax. On the front free endpaper is a later pencil inscription, dated 1901, exclaiming "a sixpenny find!". University edition of Jones's Diamond Classics. Printed by Andrew & John M. Duncan, Printers to Glasgow University. 55 x 95mm. Contemporary brown calf; spine in compartments with hand-tooled gilt mitred and cornered panelling and black calf titling piece with gilt lettering with double gilt ruled and broken-line horizontal rules. Covers with scrolling festooned borders in gilt (slightly rubbed at edges and corners). Bondy, 84-6. Spielmann, 270. Welsh, 4069. OCLC, 1085373484 . WorldCat locates 6 copies worldwide. Seller Inventory # 5424