The Story Without An End, From the German of Carove Sarah Austin
1868. No Edition Remarks. 40 pages. No dust jacket. Blue illustrated cloth board. Contains black and white and illustrations and 15 colourd plates by Eleanor Vere Boyle. Book has been rebacked. Gilt text block edges. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Minor tearing to some page edges, more pronounced to page 40. Minor loss to fore edge of frontispiece. Text is unaffected. Tightly bound with thumb-marking throughout. Minor water staining to text block edges. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Moderate splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Boards are bowed. Visible wear marks to boards.