Lalla Rookh.
New York. Hurd and Houghton. 1867. Hardcover. 16mo. 16cm, 332p., title page vignette, 5 engraved plates, head & tail decorations, in full contemporary black Russia, gilt decorated raised bands, full gilt decorations in the panels, gilt ruled panels on the bevelled boards, gilt decorated inner dentelles, gilt roll decoration on the board edges, all edges gilt, french marbled endpapers, front free fly fixed to verso of frontis, lacking the rear free fly endpaper, very good condition, attractively bound (ilhmds). ~ A finely bound American edition of Thomas Moore's oriental romance first published in 1817. English artist and Punch cartoonist, famous for his illustrations of Alice in Wonderland', John Tenniel illustrated "Lalla Rookh" first in 1861. With Thomas Moore's Preface written originally for the collected edition of Moore's works. Item #35956
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