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

[PEACOCK, Thomas Love]. Melincourt; or, Sir Oran Haut-Ton. Illustrated by F. H. Townsend. With an Introduction by George Saintsbury. London: Macmillan and Co., 1896.

First edition thus. Cloth-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (205 x 130 x 30 mm.), pp. xxii, 326 [6 pages of advertisements]. Publisher's original red cloth with blind embossed covers, gilt titles to upper cover and spine; rough cut page edges; plain endpapers; half-title present; 40 illustrations including a frontispiece. Printed by R. & R. Clark Limited, Edinburgh. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding secure and square. Covers and contents very clean. Mild bumping to spine ends. Without previous ownership markings. Scarce.