461 printed pages. Frontispiece. Edited by J. Talfourd Blair. Ellen Terry series, 35. Top edges gilt. Gold and blue decorated endpapers. Original blue silk place-markers. Very slight age-toning. Small red smudge on corner of Frontispiece. 35 x 55 mm. Full later ruby morocco believed to be by L.G. Challenger; spine in compartments with gilt titling and hand-tooled decoration; covers with Shakespeare arms embossed in gilt. Welsh, 6251. L. G. Challenger – book dealer and amateur bookbinder, whose 1960's miniature book bindings are a niche collecting field, and becoming increasingly hard to find; they all have a naïve charm.








