1895 - Maid Marian and Crotchet Castle

By Thomas Love Peacock Illustrated By F. H. Townsend Published 1895Macmillan and Co., Publishers/ London Peacock Art Nouveau Cover Design & peacock endpapers by Albert Angus Turbayne(1866-1940) who was considered one of the most distinguished book designers of this time period. Highly elaborate gilt illustrated cover and spine on blue cloth, decorative pictorial endpapers in peacock design, all gilt edges, illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard, tissue guard has light foxing, title page with faint foxing, illustrated within, binding tight, clean pages, light bumping to spine edges, 321pp. Very good condition ++. Rare/ scare book Size: 5” x 7 1/4” An extremely highly coveted edition for the collector.