Walter Besant — The Holy Rose Etc
London , Chatto and Windus, 1890. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this novel by Walter Besant. With a frontispiece by Fred Barnard. Publisher's catalogue to rear, dated October 1889. Sir Walter Besant was a novelist and historian In a cloth covered binding. Externally, sound with bumping and shelfwear. Internally, binding slightly strained in places. Prize presentation label to front pastedown and loss to front free endpaper. Bright with occasional spotting. Good Only . Ill.: Fred Barnard. Good Only .