428, [10]pp, with tissue-guarded monochrome plate illustrations. Green buckram cloth boards with gilt and blind embossed decorations, gilt lettering front and spine, Bevelled edges. Decorated endpapers. 8vo. Cloth is a lightly rubbed on edges and around spine, a little pushed at spine tips. Front free endpaper absent. A little foxing and toning to first and last few pages else neat, clean and tight.
Hocking (1850 to 1925) was a Cornish-born novelist, political activist and Methodist preacher. His best remembered novel is Her Benny (1879), a best-seller in its day which was tuned into a film in 1920. Most of this novels were didactic in character and aimed at younger audiences.
