Thomas Hughes - The Scouring of the White Horse - First Edition

ANONYMOUS, [HUGHES, Thomas (1822-1896), DOYLE, Richard, illustrator].

The Scouring of the White Horse or the Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk.

Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1859.

FIRST EDITION, first issue with 'puropse' for purpose on page 99. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.xii; 228; 16 of publisher's catalogue. Publisher's blue cloth blocked in gilt to spine and upper and in blind to rear board. Brown endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated.

Some marks throughout with a few marginal paper tears. Two labels to front pastedown alongside some pencil annotation, endpapers split along gutters. Binding rubbed to extremities, split along lower joint. Good.