PHANTASTES: A FAERIE ROMANCE FOR MEN AND WOMEN

by George MacDonald

$4,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 65, Cornhill, 1858. Octavo, pp. 1-4 1 2-323 324: blank , original decorated dark green pebbled cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, cream endpapers, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Of the many binding variants possible for this book, this copy most closely resembles Wolff's copy II. The author's first prose book. A cornerstone of nineteenth-century

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