Merry Hall [with] Laughter on the Stairs [with] Sunlight on the Lawn
( William McLAREN, illus. ) NICHOLS, Beverley
With Drawings by William McLaren.
THE 'MERRY HALL' TRILOGY COMPLETE IN FULL MOROCCO
Published: Jonathan Cape, [1951-56]
Stock code: 50307
Price: £1,230.00
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 3 frontispieces, decorative titles, numerous illustrations in the text and coloured pictorial endpapers;
handsomely bound in full crushed morocco (green/red/blue respectively), sides with gilt frame border, backs with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt tops, hand-made endpapers, ribbon markers, in custom-made-slip-case, an elegant set ideal as a gift or for presentation.
Beverley Nichols' second and best-known trilogy forms a delightful chronicle of the enhancement of his Georgian manor house and gardens at Ashtead in Surrey. It comprises 'Merry Hall' (1951), 'Laughter on the Stairs (1953) and 'Sunlight on the Lawn' (1956). An abridged version of the trilogy was issued in a single volume as 'The Gift of a Home' in 1972. VERY SCARCE AS A SET IN THIS CONDITION.