THE NEW ORDEAL

by Sir George Tomkyns Chesney

$1,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1879. Small octavo, pp. 1-4 1 2-140, full red polished calf, front and rear panels ruled and tooled in gold and blind, spine panel lettered and tooled in gold, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. First edition. A presentation copy from Chesney to Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton 1831-1891 , son of Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st

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