8vo. (Some very minor staining.) IN AN EXHIBITION BINDING STAMP-SIGNED BY F. C. AUSTIN. Central panel of green morocco flanked by blue morocco with red morocco at the head and foot gilt, central tan morocco onlay lozenges, the upper cover with a blind-tooled scene of Westminster, London, spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, the larger center compartment with gilt central lozenge bearing the date of publication, two compartments gilt-lettered, turn-ins ruled in gilt and blind, edges gilt.

FIRST EDITION, IN A BINDING PREPARED FOR AND EXHIBITED AT THE 1939 GOLDEN GATE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION IN SAN FRANCISCO. F. C. Austin studied bookbinding at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in London, and winner of the City and Guilds of London Institute's prize for bookbinding in 1933. He was a finisher at Roger de Coverly, which, by the 1930s, was operated by Roger's sons Edward, Arthur, and William. Arthur de Coverly exhibited five bindings in total by F. C. Austin at the San Francisco Exhibition. A FINE COPY.