The Essays of Elia

Description:

With introduction and notes by Alfred Ainger. Reprint. First published in 1883

Condition

Full blue calf, marbled endpapers + edges; raised bands + gilt tooling to spine; red leather title piece. Prize binding, Marlborough College, with gilt armorial decoration to front board. Vg. Minor scuff to rear cover.

Presentation inscription, dated 1903, to Herbert Francis Kirkpatrick (1888-1971) who became an eminent Anglican priest, appointed as Archdeacon of Ely cathredral in 1947