Devereux. LYTTON (Edward Bulwer).

Autograph Edition, one of ten numbered copies, this being number eight. Frontispiece and five illustrations by multiple illustrators, each illustration duplicated in another state, two of which are coloured.

8vo. [232 x 160 x 43 mm]. [2]ff xx, [2], 473, [7] pp. Bound by the Adams Bindery in full red goat skin, the covers tooled in gilt with interwoven fillets and gouges, leaf and floral tools and green goat skin onlays tooled in a floral design. The spine divided into three panels with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the first and third, the second with gilt tooling and green goat skin onlays. Turn-ins and matching inside joints tooled in gilt with a green goat skin doublure, bindery stamp located at the bottom of the front turn-in, red silk endleaves, top edge gilt. (Spine a little rubbed and faded, extremities slightly worn).

New York and London: Anglo-American Publishing Co., [c.1900]

Internally very clean, illustrations are accompanied by captioned tissue guards. Overall in very good condition.

An extremely scarce edition of Lytton's novel.

Stock no. ebc8901