8vo. [4], 346pp, [2]. Finely bound by Birdsall & Son of Northampton in contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, red cloth boards. Original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers bound in. Wrappers worn and marked. George Meredith's inked ownership inscription to upper wrapper.

Novelist and poet George Meredith's (1828-1909) copy of the first edition of Émile Erckmann's (1822-1899) and Alexandre Chatrian's (1826-1890) selection of tales set in the French Alps.