[Hand Colored] The Forsaken Merman Other Brown cloth spine with lighter

Brown cloth spine with lighter brown paper-covered boards

provide a very striking "halo" effect to the cross

Measures 4" x 6

spiral flourishes

Small splits to edges of folding portions of marbled paper

[Hand Colored] The Forsaken Merman Other Brown cloth spine with lighterArnold, Matthew. The Forsaken Merman. London: J. M. Dent & Co., Aldine House, 1900. (Fifty copies on Japan vellum and ten copies on vellum were also printed for the Guild of Women Binders in 1901.) Illustrated by Jean C. Archer; frontispiece, four full page engravings, ornate decorated borders throughout, and decorated endpapers. All illustrations and decorative borders have been skillfully hand colored, along with the endpapers and the primary