G. K. CHESTERTON. — The Defendant.

R. Brimley Johnson, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. [viii], 131pp + [i] publisher's advertisement. Buckram with bevelled edges, lettered in gold at the spine. Some discolouration to the buckram, and the corner tips gently rubbed. The free endpapers browned, and the rear hinge splitting and just a little tender. Contemporary (1903) former owner initials inked to the tip of the front free endpaper, beneath which is a handsome bookplate designed by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and printed at the Cuala Press (the plate one of several designed by Yeats for Dame Christian and a Miss Cunningham, two teachers St Paul's Girls' School, formerly Bute House in Brook Green, London). Good. The author's uncommon third book, which collects a series of sixteen connected "A Defence" articles which were originally printed in the weekly periodical 'The Speaker', preceded by a new seven-page introduction. Sullivan 3., Good