Six consecutive issues of the monthly 'The Idler' magazine, from February 1895 to July 1895, bound into a single volume. 852pp, copiously illustrated. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt decorations and lettering on the front panel, gilt lettering on spine. Decorated endpapers. 8vo. Boards moderately rubbed at edges, rounded at corners and spine ends, Text block edges a little tnoned. Some toning on free endpapers and occasional and faint spotting on first and last few pages. The last leaf has a number written neatly at the bottom.
The Idler was a montly literary and humerous magazine edited by Jerome K Jerome between 1892 and 1911. Highlights of the issues in this volume include the first print edition of Rudyard Kipling's short story, My Sunday at Home (without illustrations, at Kipling's request).
