F. C. Philips — As in a Looking Glass

London , Ward & Downey, 1889 . Cloth. A limited, illustrated edition of As in a Looking Glass by F. C. Philips. A limited edition copy, limited to one thousand copies. F. C. Philips was a British army officer novelist and journalist who wrote over forty novel and over a dozen plays. As in a Looking Glass was first published serially for a paper called Life under the title Le Journal d'une Mondaine. This limited edition copy is illustrated by George Du Maurier, a cartoonist known for his work in Punch and for his novel Trilby. With twelve plates and a frontispiece with plate facing page 77 detached but present.Collated, complete. Re-bound in full cloth. Externally, very smart with some marks to the boards and spine and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Both hinges starting but remaining firm, rear endpaper is detached but present and plate facing page 77 detached but present. Otherwise, internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Good . Ill.: G. du Maurier. Good .