Romantic Ceylon. Its History, Legend and Story

by Ralph Henry Bassett

£75 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Cecil Palmer, 1929. History FIRST EDITION. Octavo 23 x 15cm , pp.253; 1 . Publisher's grey cloth lettered in gilt to spine. With 18 full-page illustrations including a frontispiece, and several in-text illustrations. Also with a map of Ceylon preceding title page, pristine fold-out map to pg.68. Ink ownership of J.E.S. Bodger to fly-leaf. Light toning and spotting throughout although more evident to preliminaries and endpapers, wearing to cloth

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