BINDINGS -- MORGAN, Mary de.  The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde; and Other Stories. London: Macmillan, 1880. 4° (211 x 167mm). Title, 11 plates and several head- and tail-pieces mounted on india paper. Contemporary green morocco by "C.E.G.", gilt spine, sides richly and ornately gilt with a wide arabesque border of leaves, flowers and pointillé dots surrounding a central decoration composed of the same tools, gilt turn-ins with similar decoration, top edges gilt, others uncut. NUMBER 70 OF AN UNSPECIFIED LIMITATION.
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BINDINGS -- MORGAN, Mary de. The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde; and Other Stories. London: Macmillan, 1880. 4° (211 x 167mm). Title, 11 plates and several head- and tail-pieces mounted on india paper. Contemporary green morocco by "C.E.G.", gilt spine, sides richly and ornately gilt with a wide arabesque border of leaves, flowers and pointillé dots surrounding a central decoration composed of the same tools, gilt turn-ins with similar decoration, top edges gilt, others uncut. NUMBER 70 OF AN UNSPECIFIED LIMITATION.

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BINDINGS -- MORGAN, Mary de. The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde; and Other Stories. London: Macmillan, 1880. 4° (211 x 167mm). Title, 11 plates and several head- and tail-pieces mounted on india paper. Contemporary green morocco by "C.E.G.", gilt spine, sides richly and ornately gilt with a wide arabesque border of leaves, flowers and pointillé dots surrounding a central decoration composed of the same tools, gilt turn-ins with similar decoration, top edges gilt, others uncut. NUMBER 70 OF AN UNSPECIFIED LIMITATION.

GOSSE, Edmund. On Viol and Flute. London: Kegan Paul, 1890. 8°. Photogravure frontispiece after Alma Tadema (frontispiece and title a little foxed). Contemporary green morocco, spine gilt in compartments with tulips, stars and other small tools and with a black morocco dot onlay, the same tools on sides forming large cornerpieces with black morocco dot and oval onlays, a simple wavy line border at centre with a tulip tool at the centre of each side enclosing the title in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (head and and foot of spine lightly rubbed). NUMBER 22 OF 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES signed by Charles Whittingham; with another finely-bound book. (3)
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