“FOR ONE MOMENT THE OUTLINE, FAMILIAR AND FAIR, OF A WHITE DRESS, A WHITE NECK, AND SOFT DUSKY HAIR”

[BULWER-LYTTON, Edward George] MEREDITH, Owen, pseudonym. Lucile. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1897). Octavo, 20th-century three-quarter blue polished crushed morocco, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. $250.

Handsomely bound illustrated edition of Bulwer-Lytton’s novel in verse, with 12 facsimiles of watercolors by Madeleine Lemaire and 100 black-and-white in-text illustrations by C. McCormick Rogers.

First published in 1860 by the prolific Victorian novelist Bulwer-Lytton under the pseudonym Owen Meredith. Bookplate.

Fine condition, handsomely bound.