Lyra Australis; Or, Attempts To Sing In A Strange Land

by Caroline Woolmer Leakey

$125 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Bickers and Bush, 1854. First Edition. Octavo. Bound by Bone and Son in publisher's green cloth, with embossed foliage in the outline of a lyre, with gilt titles and further embossed foliage to spine; pale yellow endpapers, uncut and unopened. Binding is rubbed and a little grubby, worn at spine ends, corners bumped, fading to spine. Text is very clean, as unopened. Book binder's ticket, Bound by Bone and Son, 76 Fleet Street London . Caroline

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