1888 Mr. Meeson's Will

Description

First Edition, Illustrated

A first edition copy of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding, with the rare light floral end papers.

Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and fifteen further plates. Collated, complete.

Ink inscription to the half title page. This intriguing novel by H. Rider Haggard concerns the greedy, wealthy owner of a publishing house, Mr. Meeson, who is shipwrecked with several others on one of the Kerguelen Islands. The second half of the book concerns a court battle, involving Mr. Meeson's Will, which is tattooed onto the back of Augusta Smithers.

With a thirty-two page publisher's catalogue to the rear. All issue points correspond with Scott, 9a.