Tiger Books

contemporary half-leather over marbled boards, raised bands, decorated in gilt, leather labels (lacking one), illustrated, marbled edges, a nice copy. an extraordinary fantasy, giving a burlesque picture of English life and institutions at the time of the Stuarts, and satirizing princes, lords, bishops and popular servility; ‘the authorised translation of ‘L’Homme Qui Rit’’; first published 1870; 521 pages;