Julian Sturgis — Little Comedies

London, William Blackwood and Sons , 1880. First edition. Leather. A very scarce first edition of this short anthology of comedies by Julian Sturgis. The first edition of this work, a rare copy scarcely seen on the market. There are only six institutional copies of the first edition catalogued on Copac at the British Library and Eton College among others. Featuring six short comedies by Julian Sturgis, 'Apples,' 'Fire-Flies,' 'Picking Up the Pieces,' 'Half-Way to Arcady,' 'Mabel's Holy Day,' and 'Heather.'Rebound in charming half crushed morocco signed Root & Son. Julian Sturgis was a British-American novelist and lyricist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Rebound in half crushed morocco over cloth covered boards, five raised bands, gilt to top edge, marbled endpapers. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only. Esher's bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .