BUDGEN, L. M. Live Coals, or, Faces from the Fire. London: Reeve & Co., 1867. 4o. 35 chromolithographs printed in red and mounted on card tipped in as issued. (Light dampstaining and some staining to plates, mostly marginal.) Modern quarter-leather (some dust soiling). FIRST EDITION. A strange tale on the suggestive shapes of glowing and burning coals told from the prospective of the "House Cricket, the Cricket of the Hearth. What creature upon earth is so certain to be closely conversant with all that belongs to the domestic Fire?" (Preface).