Le Fanu (Joseph Sheridan) The Wyvern Mystery, first one-volume edition, Montague Summers' copy with his bookplate to front pastedown, frontispiece and illustrations by Brinsley Sheriden Le Fanu, contemporary ink ownership inscription to head of title, occasional corner creasing or light finger-soiling, hinges weak, original decorative cloth, slight shelf-lean, spine darkened, spine ends and corners bumped and frayed, joints rubbed, 8vo, Ward and Downey, 1889.

⁂ The rare first one-volume (and first illustrated) edition of Le Fanu's gothic novel, with the bookplate of noted collector of gothic fiction, Montague Summers. We can trace no example of this edition at auction, Library Hub lists copies at the BL and Trinity College Dublin libraries only.