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Peacock, Thomas Love.
Maid Marian and Crotchet Castle.
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London;
Date of Publication: 1895
Stock Code: 12480
Octavo, pp., xxxvi, 321, paginated to include plates. Monochrome frontispiece with tissue guard, 35 further plates, and 4 in-text illustrations. 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. Endpapers and tissue guard are lightly toned, otherwise a very clean & neat copy with only minor rubbing to spine tips; near fine condition. Two novellas which showcase Peacock’s wit and satirical prowess. Maid Marian is a retelling of the Robin Hood myth, whereas Crotchet Castle is a story of wealth, greed and deception. A handsome peacock binding which is illustrated throughout by F. H. Townsend, with an Introduction by George Saintsbury. £175.00