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Seller's Description:
Very Good. Presumed first edition (no additional printings listed). Contemporary half brown leather (spine and corners) and marbeled paste-down paper covered boards, stamped gilt lettering and decorative spine, 4 raised bands, 6x9 1/2 inches, double column, 194 pp + 2 pp publisher's ads. Hardcover, very good. Corners bumped with cardboard exposed there and along edges of boards, moderate shelf scuffing, rubbed along joints and head and foot of spine, L-shaped 1 inch tear at foot of spine, faded red edges. Internally, water(? ) stain on endpapers, evident (1/2 to 1 1/2 inches) on upper corners of first and last few dozen or so leaves, and on side edges (3/4 x 4 inches) of last 2-3 dozen leaves, occasional bit of foxing, faint previous owner's inscription (in pencil) on paste-down rear endpaper, previous owner's signature (in pencil) on title page, author's real name written (in ink) on title page, otherwise tight, clean, relatively crisp and unmarked. Per contemporary review, "A very clever musical and artistic novel"; features Felix Mendelssohn as the 'Chevalier Seraphael'. Literature; Victorian; music.
