Faed (John) Legend of St.Swithin: A Rhyme for Rainy Weather, first edition, half-title, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece pictorial title and 10 plates by C.Schacher after John Faed, new tissue guards, lightly browned with slight offsetting from plates, early twentieth century black morocco with gilt border and title and small umbrella in gilt on upper cover, g.e., neatly rebacked preserving old gilt spine, original lilac cloth upper cover elaborately blocked in gilt bound in at end, 4to, 1861.
⁂ A delightfully-illustrated version of the legend of St.Swithin espousing the vice of drinking; scarce with the plates hand-coloured.
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