Mauchlin Fern-ware - A PARTING GIFT

London, T. Nelson and Sons 1874 Fern-ware bindings Mauchline-ware brown wooden boards highly glazed. Coloured titlepage with 2 vignettes showing a lady at home and below a ship sailing away all within a fancy border. . 12mo in 8's Black leather spine with five raised bands and gilt decorations. The spine holding the two wooden covers with the fern silhouetes and gilt reverses to inner edges. [One small tip broken] All edges gilt and all pages printed throughout in sparkling gold within gold double ruled frame. Half title + coloured title with vignettes + decorated gold titlepage + [v]-viii + [9]-128pp. Front endpaper with embossed booksellers stamp & somewhat soiled & fingered with some foxing and soiling to first few pages & last 3 leaves as well as a few pages passim.

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