Red calf binding with black title plate, gilt banding and decoration on the spine. Gilt college emblem and line edging on the front board. All edges marbled with matching pastedowns.

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•                         A lovely and extremely well kept edition.

Haggard wrote the book over his summer holiday in 1885 immediately after King Solomon’s Mines. It was first serialised in Longman’s Magazine before being published. This book was immensely popular and is a third printing in its year of publication.

Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. He was also involved in land reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential.