In the original dust cover. Red cloth binding with silver title on the spine.

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First Edition. A surprisingly good yarn. 288 pp. Bound in original red cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper, which has chips at head and tail of spine, A little wear to extremities, browning of top edge and spotting largely confined to fly leaves; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by photographic portrait frontispiece. Decorated by the publisher’s device on the title page. A work of social satire, this is a humorous fiction purporting to be the diaries of Henry William Polderoy (1825-1902), covering the years 1868-1886.

Colwyn Edward Vulliamy (20 June 1886 – 4 September 1971) was an Anglo-Welsh biographer and author. He was mostly credited as C. E. Vulliamy, but he sometimes used the pen name Anthony Rolls for his crime fiction.