Wodehouse (P.G.) St Austin's, first edition, first issue without closing quotation marks on title, 2pp. advertisements, ownership stamp of J.J. Looijestijn on front free endpaper, light fore-edge spotting but internally fine, original pictorial cloth light surface marks to lower cover, spine a little sunned and ends lightly frayed but overall a very bright and excellent copy, custom-made slip-case, [McIlvaine A3a], 8vo, 1903.

⁂ An inserted note purports: "The collation details of the preliminary pp. of the first edition [of this work] are incomplete, as the numbering given runs from i to iv, and then from viii to xii. Of the omitted pages (5, 6, 7), v contained the dedication (ad matrem), vi was blank and vii contained the preface. Page iv, which McIlvaine states was the Preface, was in fact blank".

On comparing other copies seen, we see that this stands as correct.