Mistura Curiosa

by F. Crucelli, Charles Altamont Doyle

$395 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Edinburgh. Maclachlan and Stewart. 1896. First edition. 4to. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth covered bevelled boards, titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Light edgewear, some slight frayiong to head of spine; bright, clean and handsome. All edges gilt. Internally clean. A bizarre and unusual collection of verses, riddles, songs and fables, some of which it has to be said are markedly racist by today's standards if not actually intended

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