Mr. Jacobs: A Tale of The Drummer The Reporter And The Prestidigitateur

Boston: W. B. Clarke & Carruth, 1883. Fifth edition. Hardcover. 39pp. Twenty-fourmo [14 cm] Light brown cloth covered boards with a dark brown ink stamped title and striped design on the front cover. Good only. The extremities are soiled and a little rubbed. The front hinge has been reinforced with a wide piece of tape. The text block is cracked at the end. There is a contemporary owner's name on the top edge of the title page. Satire on Francis Marion Crawford's Mr. Isaacs: A Tale of Modern India. Bates also wrote The Pagans and The Intoxicated Ghost.