Tiger Books

contemporary half-leather over marbled boards, raised bands, decorated in gilt, leather labels (lacking one), a trifle rubbed, marbled edges, good. with sketches of Amelia Opie, Professor Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, Mary Russell Mitford, Charlotte Bronte, Samuel Rogers, John Wilson Croker, Mrs Marcet, Henry Hallam, Mrs Wordsworth, Thomas de Quincey, Lord Macaulay, Mrs Jameson, Walter Savage Landor and many more; first edition; 445 pages;