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Bill the Minder.

Bill the Minder.

Stock Code 113985

London, Constable & Co Ltd, 1912

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Signed limited edition. The signed vellum-bound limited edition of this collection of 16 children's stories of the exploits of the King of Troy and his boot-cleaner Bill, exquisitely illustrated. The titles are: Bill the Minder; The King of Troy; The Ancient Mariner; The Triplets; Good Aunt Gallandia; The Doctor; The Respectable Gentleman; The Sicilian Char-Woman; The Interval; The Real Soldier; The Wild Man; The Musician; The Lost Grocer; The Merchant's Wife; The Camp-Followers; The Siege of Troy.

Limited edition no. 258 of 380 numbered and signed copies; 4to (29.5 x 24 cm); signed by the author in pen on the limitation page, 16 tipped-in colour plates including frontispiece, numerous line illustrations and vignettes, light spotting to endpapers and limitation page, otherwise internally clean with slight offsetting; publisher's illustrated gilt vellum, lacking ties, top-edge gilt, others uncut and slightly browned, a little soiled, a few marks to low cover, small puncture to lower joint, very good; xiv, [3], 2-254, [2]pp.

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