Robert Overton — Queer Fish

London, Dean and Son, c1883. Hardback. A curious collection of nine short stories drawn from late Victorian Era magazines. The second edition of this collection of nine tales, or 'character sketches', from author Robert Overton. The preface to the work identifies that 'most of the papers here collected have appeared in Magazine columns, and some of them have been exceedingly popular as Public Readings&apos.With the pictorial boards designed by Ashton Wilkinson, and numerous vignette illustrations within.With a six page publisher's catalogue to the rear, and further advertisement to the rear board.This edition dated c1883 via Jisc. In the publisher's original paper covered boards. Significant rubbing and discolouration to boards. Bumping to extremities. Backstrip absent. Rear board will detach without careful handling. Internally, firmly bound. Foxing to endpapers. Pages otherwise generally bright, with the odd mark. Good Only . Ill.: Not Stated. Good Only .