A Sketch Of The Career Of Richard F Burton Collected From Men Of Eminence From Sir Richard And Lady

by Alfred Bates Richards Andrew Wilson St Clair Baddeley

$1,250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. An expansion of the extremely rare Sketch By An Old Oxonian of 1880. Woodbury-print photographic frontispiece of Burton. iv , 96 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Original stiff black paper wrappers, with large gilt facsimiles of Burton's signature on upper and lower cover, black cloth spine. Flyleaves toned, bookplate of G.E.W. Loder. Near fine copy of a scarce book. Penzer pp. 304-6 rare . Item #366885

• Binding: Wrappers

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