TALES OF NORTHUMBRIA
first edition
1899 · London
by Pease, Howard
London: Methuen & Co., 1899. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-253 [254: printer's imprint] [255-256: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank] + 40-page publisher's catalogue dated "February 1899" inserted at rear, original decorated gray green cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition, first issue. Mixed collection of Northumbrian tales, some criminous. Told largely in border county dialect, these loosely connected regionalistic stories are partly sensational and partly comic, but none are supernatural. Hubin (1994), p. 633. Wolff 5505. Spine lean, some foxing to endpapers, hairline crack along inner front hinge, still a tight, bright, very good copy. (#113662) (Inventory #: 113662)