Book is in Fine condition with mild bumping to ends of spine and corners. Gilt lettering and gilt to the top of pages still bright. Publication date December 1899. This is a very nice copy. 'Not until my uncle Grafton poisoned his ear against me did my grandfather learn how strong was the republican spirit that stirred me. "A Carvel against the king" was all he said. But I saw that Grafton had triumphed; and to tell truth it was no pleasant thing for me to set my face against the king for whom my father had died.'