viii, 316pp. Tissue-guarded monochrome plate frontis and15 further plate illustrations. Colour printed title page. Publisher's cloth boards, decorated and illustrated with four colour printing. Spine illustration. Top edge gilt, all others deckled. Boards worn at edges, rubbed through at corners and spine tips. Front endpapers bear two bookplates, one of Oliver Brett, the 3rd Viscount Esher; the second is that of his son, Lionel Brett, later the 4th Viscount Esher. Crayon mark on p viii. Binding weakened but holding. "A story of life in Muirtown. The French Count, a lonely man in a foreign land, who so conquered the prejudice, especially strong in Scotch hearts, against his race, that when he died he was followed to his grave by every boy in Muirtown Seminary".
