Scholar Gipsies

London: John Lane / The Bodley Head, 1896. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19.5cm); binding designed by Patten Wilson; beige cloth-covered boards and vertically-ribbed dark brown cloth backstrip, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and in black on covers; brown topstain; [xiv],205,[3], plus 16pp publishers catalog at rear, with frontispiece, title page, and five etchings by D.Y. Cameron. Pictorial bookplate of Monsignor Joseph M. Gleason (1869-1942) on front pastedown, with evidence of bookplate removal on rear pastedown, and label removal on rear endpaper; spine ends a little pushed, light wear to extremities, with a few tiny stains to upper rear cover, and some faint, grayish staining to lower left corner of front cover; contents clean, with the pages largely unopened; Very Good+.

An attractive copy of this collection of essays and short stories, many set in Tweeddale, Scotland.