The Light Side of Egypt

by Lance Thackeray

£85 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908. Illustrated Satire FIRST EDITION with fine colour plates. Oblong quarto 23 x 30cm , unpaginated. 36 chromolithographic plates, each with a facing leaf of explanation. Publisher's cream buckram, with titles and decoration blocked to upper in black, white, red, blue and gilt. Heavy spotting to half-title, and moderate spotting to text leaves throughout. Endpapers quite heavily toned. Toning and light wear to cloth, with

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