Tide’s Ending

4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, title in blue and black, title-vignette in monochrome, 15 coloured plates and numerous monochrome illustrations in the text, small 'dog-ear' (without loss) at lower corner of front free endpaper and half-title, some very mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original decorative buckram gilt, gilt back, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at tail of backstrip (not affecting lettering) and with some light soiling against the (predominantly white) lower panel.