Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance 1911 Hardback in dust jacket

Hardback in dust jacket

Profusely illustrated with colour photographs throughout

with the drawings reproduced from Edward Bawden's sketch-book

First edition in French of the Rackham-illustrated Snowdrop and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm

Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance 1911 Hardback in dust jacketLondon: Longman Brown Green and Longmans, 1853. Crown 8vo. (180 mm); xvi, 288 pp. Engraved titlepage. Bound in green sand grained morocco with intricate gilt decorations to sides, panelled spine also gilt. All edges gilt. Spine well rubbed at head and tail and edges, tips of corners also. With a nice gilt inscription in contemporary copperplate hand, "Harwick Doncaster, with his sister's love. St Leonards on Sea, Jan the 1st 1856".