Juliana Horatia Ewing - Lob Lie-by-the-Fire - First Edition

EWING, Juliana Horatia (1841-1885), [CALDECOTT, Randolph, illustrator].

Lob Lie-by-the-Fire; or, the Luck of Lingborough.

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, no date [1885].

FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.72. Presumed first edition, undated but 1885. Publisher's printed paper covered boards, with printed price of one shilling to upper.

Gift inscription dated August 1885 to flyleaf, half title page and final page of text heavily toned. Binding rubbed to extremities, some loss to spine. Very good.