Balder the Beautiful - A Song of Divine Death by Robert Buchanan
1877. No Edition Stated. 312 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration to front and spine. Publisher's adverts to rear. Rough cut pages. Pages have moderate foxing, tanning and thumbing. Rubbing and some water staining to endpapers and pastedowns. Pages are water stained to edges, but the text is unaffected. Pencil inscriptions to final page. A few edge tears and creases, as expected with rough cut paper. Text block edges very dusty. Boards have heavy edge wear, with bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are crushed and frayed. Scratched, rubbed and marked overall. Ink stain to lower spine. Spine is noticeably sunned. Gilt is bright. Book has a moderate forward lean. Strips of sunning front and rear.