Pretty Witty Nell: An Account of Nell Gwyn and Her Environment by Clifford Bax
1932. First Edition. 261 pages. No dust jacket. White and blue cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and illustrated plates throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen and pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and heavier tanning to text block edges. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Binding is loose. Boards have visible rubbing and sunning with noticeable bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and heavier bleach spotting to spine. Splitting to joints and book is forward leaning.