Untitled historic item (003785)

First edition, first printing. xxvi, 220pp; twenty-four black and white plate illustrations including frontispiece, all tissue-guarded. Full red leather binding with five ribs on spine, gilt titles on front. 4to. General wear to covers at spine, three small black stains on verso. Gilt text block edges. Marbled end papers. Foxing to prelim pages and plates; especially to tissue guards. Binders stamp on endpaper verso: R S Duffer. A lovely volume that remains tight. Compiled partly from well-ascertained facts of history and partly from the traditions, legends, songs and romances of the country of Aquitaine.