FIRST EDITION THUS : Circa 1899. ‘This Edition is for circulation only in India and the Colonies’. Hardback. Distinctive Talwin Morris designed binding for this edition. Frontispiece. In remarkably fresh and clean condition. Minor use only. No owner name or internal markings. Plain end-papers (slightly browned). Tight, bright and clean. NEAR FINE. 384 pages. First published by Blackie & Son, [ Actually released in Nov or Dec., 1890 ]. See Shaberman No. 89; he makes no record of this edition at all.
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