(EWING, Juliana Horatia) Melchior's Dream and other Tales. By J.H.G. Edited by Mrs Alfred Gatty. FIRST EDITION. Bell & Daldy. 1862
Half title, front. & illus. by M.S.G., 4pp ads & 32pp cata. (May 1862). Orig. blue cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt; sl. faded.
¶Wolff 2110. Ewing's first book, Melchior's Dream, 'takes its allegorical title from the mythical boy who refuses to share a bed with his brother and sits up all night by the fire. He is visited by personifications of Time and Death'. (Sutherland.)
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£120
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