THE KEEPSAKE for 1831
London, published for the proprietor by Hurst, Chance & Co, [1830].
£175
8vo pp [viii] 320. Contains 18 steel engravings after Flaxman, Bonnington, Turner (2) and others. Publisher’s full crimson silk binding with gilt lettering on the spine, silk on back hinge and tail-cap a little frayed, otherwise a very clean and neat copy, a.e.g. Includes the first printings of Mary Shelley’s tales “The Swiss Peasant” and “The Transformation”. Faxon 1492.
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