[GASKELL, ELIZABETH]. Cranford. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1904.
FIRST EDITION THUS; leather-bound, hardcover, octavo (19.5cm x 12.5cm x 3cm), pp. x, 206. English text, with twenty-five coloured illustrations by C. E. Brock. Publisher's original deluxe full vellum, elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt to front cover and spine, t.e.g., untrimmed fore edge and bottom edge, pictorial endpapers, initial and terminal blanks plus half-title present, framed title-page with vignette, frontispiece with tissue-guard, head-pieces. Printed by Turnbull and Spears. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure. Covers beautifully preserved. Interior with the faintest touch of browning to endpaper and a previous owner details neatly in ink to front pastedown, else immaculate. Scarce thus.
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