Garton Rowley: Leaves from the Log of a Master Mariner

Not dated but circa1880. Presumed first edition (following Nisbet's practice of dating subsequent editions and printings). Lovely late Victorian pictorial cloth boards depicting schoolboy in cricket gear reading on a chair (on front) and schoolboy with book under arm (on spine). Monochrome frontispiece illustration. 12mo. Boards a little rubbed and rounded at edges with some spotting. Lightly frayed around spine. Some mild signs of old water damage. Pencil inscription on front paste down endpaper, dated 1912. Marked & soiled on text block edge. Occasional spotting internally.