Description
8vo, pp. 31 [1]. Original pink wrappers printed in black, advert to rear. Soiled. Wrappers soiled with some ink scribbles, short tears to spine. Ownership inscription of Elizabeth Rae dated 1860 to dedication page.
Rab and His Friends.
- Edinburgh: Thomas Constable and Co. 1859
£45
Notes
An early printing - the 12th thousand, as per the front wrapper - of the first separate issue of this much-loved children's story set in Edinburgh, about a large mastiff. The original publication was as a chapter in Brown's 'Horae Subsecivae' (1858).
