MELINCOURT OR SIR ORAN HAUT-TON BY THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK 1896 F.H. TOWNSEND ILLS.

[PEACOCK, THOMAS LOVE]. Melincourt; or, Sir Oran Haut-ton. London: Macmillan and Co., 1896

FIRST EDITION THUS. Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (18.5 x 13 x 3 cm); xxii, 326. English text with an introduction by George Saintsbury. Beautifully bound in publisher's original decorative cloth; all page edges gilt; peacock-patterned endpapers; half-title; 40 illustrations by F. H. Townsend including frontispiece with tissue guard. Condition: NEAR FINE. A couple of trivial fox spots, otherwise an immaculate copy without previous ownership markings. Scarce thus.