Rhymes a la Mode

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1885. Second edition. Very discreet evidence of color retouching to extremities of cloth, corners gently bumped, generally a very good copy overall. 12mo. 21,x, 139 pages. Frontispiece (tissue guard). Publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, housed in custom linen slipcase. Provenance: H. Rider Haggard's copy with his ownership signature on the half-title. A fine association as Haggard and Lang went on to collaborate on the science fiction novel The World's Desire, first published in 1890. (Inventory #: 410626)