8vo. 447pp, [6]. With an illustrated frontispiece and 120 illustrations in the text by the author, and six final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Without dustwrapper. Original publisher's navy cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Inked ownership inscription of Mervyn Ll. Peel to verso of FFEP.

The first illustrated edition of George Du Maurier's (1834-1896) second novel, first published in three volumes in 1894. The immensely popular work gave two expressions to the English language, the 'Trilby hat', and, after the character of the evil mesmerist, 'Svengali' as the descriptor of anyone who manipulates another person in a sinister fashion.

Sir Mervyn Lloyd Peel (1856-1929), Conservative politician who held the offices of Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace.