A High Little World and What Happened There

London: Richard Bentley & Son, Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen, 1892. First Edition. 3 vols., 8vo (185 x 127mm), pp. [4], 291, [1]; [4], 272; [4], 283, [1]. Publisher’s dark green cloth blocked on the front cover and spine with overall floral pattern in silver, lettered on the spine in silver. Early owner signatures on the front pastedowns and free endpapers, light staining and foxing to the endpapers, rubbing to the boards and a large abrasion to the front cover of the first volume, overall a good set. Published anonymously, the Bentley Private Catalogue of June 13, 1892 gives the author's real name. The daughter of Wesleyan minister John Fletcher, she married a minister of the United Free Church of Scotland, Robert A. Watson. A scarce set in the original publisher's binding. Wolff 7078.