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Peacock, Thomas Love.
Gryll Grange.
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London;
Date of Publication: 1896
Stock Code: 12479
Octavo, pp., xxiv, 292, paginated to include plates. Monochrome frontispiece with tissue guard and 38 further plates, with one in-text illustration. Publisher’s royal blue cloth with gilt titles and stylised peacock heavily blocked in gilt to spine and upper board; all edges gilt with yellow peacock pictorial endpapers. Light toning to free endpapers and foxing tissue guard, otherwise a very clean & neat copy with only minor rubbing to spine tips; near fine condition. Peacock’s final novel centres on Gregory Gryll whose plan to pass his estate onto his niece is thwarted by her inability to find a husband to meet her exacting standards. A handsome peacock binding which is illustrated throughout by F. H. Townsend, with an Introduction by George Saintsbury. £175.00