PETER GUNN. — Vernon Lee. Violet Paget, 1856-1935.

Oxford University Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xi, 244pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards, lettered in gold at the spine. With a portrait frontispiece and twelve photographs and reproductions over ten plates. The binding sprung. Some light partial spotting to the top edge, and some offset toning to one text leaf, presumably from where a newspaper clipping was at one point stored. A good copy in lightly dust soiled re-priced dust wrapper, with some fraying to the spine panel ends and to several other extremities. An uncommon biography, the first, of the French-born British art historian and writer who worked under the pseudonym 'Vernon Lee', and is perhaps best remembered for her supernatural fiction, which was much admired by Montague Summers, and her work on aesthetics., Good, Good