‎"HUMPHREYS, HENRY NOEL.‎
‎A Record of the Black Prince. Being a selection of such passages in his life as have been most quantly and strikingly narrated by chroniclers at the period, embellished with highly wrought miniatures and borderings selected from various illuminated MS...‎

‎London, Longman, brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849. 8vo. (19,8 x 13,8 cm.). In original state with black pierced covers moulded from a mixture of papier-mâché and plaster to imitate a Gothic carved wood-binding. A few small bursts in binding, but no loss of material. Spine in black leather with some demolition of the gilt lettering. Gilt edges. Gilt inner dentelles. Title-page in red/black. II,(4),XCV pp. + 1 pp. listing ""Illuminated Works by H. Noel Humphreys"". Black letters with headings printed in read. With 4 full-page and 2 in the text of fine chromolithograped illustration. Some textleaves framed with wood-engravings. Clean and fine.‎

Reference : 54257

‎First printing of Humphrey's finest production, only printed in 1000 copies, but not all bound as this with its imitation of a carved Gothic wood-binding.‎