Strange Surprising Adventures Of The Venerable Gooroo Simple, And His Five Disciples, Noodle, Doodle, Wiseacre, Zany, and Foozle

London: Trubner & Co, 1861. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth. Teg. Very good. 221 pages. 19 1/2 x 13 cm. Color lithographed frontispiece and fifty wood engravings in the text. GORDON N. RAY. THE ILLUSTRATOR AND THE BOOK IN ENGLAND. "The text is a version of the Panchatantra. Crowquill also illustrated Victorian 'Yellow Backs,' (32 of them), and for the latter preferred calligraphic or emblematic to pictorial design." p.64. Backstrip extremities and corners rubbed, last few leaves age toned at margins not affecting text.