[Boyle, Eleanor Vere] The Story Without an End

London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1874. Original red-brown cloth with superb gilt and black stamped cover design of dragonflies, gilt lettering on cover and spine. Tinted frontispiece, line drawing on title-page, and fifteen exquisite color lithographic plates, with printed tissue guards attached at the gutter (one very slightly torn and neatly detached). A wonderfully preserved copy of a book commonly found disbound. Expertly (nearly invisibly) recased, slight wear to corners, otherwise very good and tight. (Inventory #: 4919)