Description
The signed limited edition of Three Men in a Boat, To Say Nothing of the Dog! by Jerome K. Jerome.
Oblong quarto, xv, [1], 174, [2]pp. Three-piece binding, with linen sides printed in scarlet, slate, and yellow vertical stripes, ochre buckram, title stamped in gilt on spine. Introduction by Stella Gibbons, with drawings by John Griffiths. Designed by John Lewis and printed by W.S. Cowell Ltd. Housed in the publisher’s slipcase, a fine example.
Limited to 2000 numbered copies, signed by Griffiths on the colophon page, this being number 85.
(LEC 480) (Newman, 487)
A fine copy.
First published in 1889, Jerome’s comic novel follows three London friends and the dog, Montmorency, on a boating holiday along the Thames.
