CRANFORD BY ELIZABETH GASKELL 1894 FINE BINDING BY SYD A HOWE

[GASKELL, ELIZABETH]. Cranford. London: Macmillan and Co., 1894.

REPRINT; leather bound, hardcover, octavo (19 x 12 x 3 cm), pp. xxx, 298. English text, with a preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, and illustrations throughout by Hugh Thomson. Stunningly bound in full morocco gilt by Syd A. Howe of Guildford, all page edges gilt, hand-marbled endpapers, half-title, frontispiece with tissue guard, 111 illustrations in the text. Printed by R. & R. Clarke, Edinburgh. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure. Covers very well-preserved. Faintest touch of spotting to fore edge. Without previous ownership markings. A beautiful copy.