Costume of the Ancients Agatha Christie introduction by Nicholas Boyle

introduction by Nicholas Boyle

Frontispiece and 24 pages of colour plates

these stories "show a self-conscious transition from shy child to tormented adolescent

Planned at the Officina Bodoni and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega

published by Max Reinhardt in 1955

Costume of the Ancients Agatha Christie introduction by Nicholas BoyleCostume of the Ancients by Thomas Hope London: William Miller, 1809. First Octavo. Sized 24 x 15. 5cm. Pp. xi, 54, 200 (plates). Bound in dark red leather, spine lettered in gold (Hope's Ancient Costumes) with seven horizontal gilt rules, single rule to boards gilt, decorative rule to turn ins gilt, beautiful marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Condition A good amount of wear to covers and spine, with bumping to corners and spine tips, some marks and