Publisher's brown morocco. Front cover has a recessed blind and gilt stamped panel, intricately decorated in gilt and blind with
1868 · London:
by [ Bindings ].[ Defoe, Daniel ]
London: Macmillan, 1868 Publisher's brown morocco. Front cover has a recessed blind and gilt stamped panel, intricately decorated in gilt and blind with painted ivorine centerpiece. Back cover has the same recessed panel without the inset. Gilt turn-ins. All edges gilt. . Octavo. Binding extremities lightly rubbed. Intermittent light foxing and minor marginal tear on p. 96. First few gatherings have been re-inserted. Contemporary ink inscription on front flyleaf. A very good copy and an example of a vulnerable deluxe trade binding that has remarkably survived.
(Inventory #: 16844)