The Idler Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly Journal, Vol IV (August 1893 - January 1894)

Six consecutive issues of the monthly 'The Idler' magazine, from August 1893 to January 1894, bound into a single volume.  660pp, copiously illustrated.  Green cloth-covered boards with gilt decorations and lettering on the front panel, gilt lettering on spine.  Decorated endpapers. 8vo.  Boards moderately rubbed at edges, rounded at corners and spine ends, minor bump on upper rear edges, slight ridge in spine cloth.  Text block edges a little tnoned.  Some toning on free endpapers and occasional and faint spotting on first and last few pages.  The last leaf has a number written neatly at the bottom. The Idler was a montly literary and humerous magazine edited by Jerome K Jerome between 1892 and 1911.  Highlights of the issues included in this collection include the first print edition of Conan Doyle's short story, The Case of Lady Sannox (later published under the title The Kiss of Blood) and Jerome K Jerome's comic memoir of his experiences on the stages, On the Stage and Off, which he later turned into a full length book published in 1885.