THE RING OF AMASIS. FROM THE PAPERS OF A GERMAN PHYSICIAN. Edited

by Owen Meredith pseudonym . In Two Volumes by Owen Meredith, first Earl of Lytton Edward Robert

$1,250 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Chapman and Hall, 1863. Octavo, two volumes: pp. 1-5 6-8 1 2-293 294-296: blank last leaf is a blank ; 1-5 6-7 8-9 10-299 300: printer's imprint , original green cloth, front and rear panels ruled in blind, spine panel lettered in gold and ruled in blind, light yellow coated endpapers. First edition. The story of a German count, a Byronic figure, whose life is blighted by an ancient Egyptian ring.

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