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Crane Walter Crane Bowring L. B. Bowring Ellis F. S. Ellis Reynard the Fox Reynard the Law


 

Author Name:   Ellis, F. S. (Translator).

Title:    The History of Reynard the Fox with Some Account of His Friends and Enemies Turned Into English Verse

Binding:   Three-Quarter Leather
Book Condition:   Very Good
Edition:   First Edition
Size:   Duodecimo
Publisher:   London David Nutt 1897
Illustrator:   Walter Crane
Inscription:   Signed by Author

Seller ID:   002784

Inscribed by translator Ellis with a ten-line poem about Reynard and alluding to the tale's origin in India, to L. B. Bowring Esq., "With the author's kind regards, Jany 1. 1900." Surely this is Bowring who had been the Chief Commissioner of Mysore and Coorg, and for whom the Bowring Institute in Bangalore was re-named. This edition reportedly was limited to 250 copies. Green morocco binding with extra-gilt spine incorporating five fox heads, scuffed. t.e.g., untrimmed. 002784

Crane Walter Crane Bowring L. B. Bowring Ellis F. S. Ellis Reynard the Fox Reynard the Law

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