Lavengro. The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest
London, John Murray, 1851 (first edition).
Small octavo, three volumes, [iii]-xx (lacking the half-title), 360, 32 (publisher's catalogue dated January 1851) pages plus a frontispiece portrait with a facsimile signed inscription; xii, 366, 32 (publisher's catalogue dated January 1851) pages; and xii, 426 pages.
Original green stippled cloth with paper title-labels on the spines; covers a little scuffed, lightly stained, bumped on a few corners and sunned on the spines; top edges a little marked; front joint of Volume 3 split a short distance near the foot; front flyleaf of the first volume removed; endpapers a little foxed; light waterstain to the blank top margin of the frontispiece; trifling loss to the top corner tip of three consecutive leaves in the advertisements in Volume 2 (and one of these three leaves is creased); mild signs of use and age; a very good set.
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