Doyle (Arthur Conan) The White Company
£1,250
London, Smith, Elder, 1891.
First edition. 3 vol. 8vo. Uniformly bound in contemporary half red morocco on red cloth, spines gilt compartments within raised bands.
An attractive set of this historical adventure novel set during the Hundred Years’ War in England, France, and Spain in 1366–67, against the background of the Black Prince’s campaign to restore Peter of Castile to the throne. One of only 750 copies.
In stock
Internally very good; sympathetically rebacked preserving the contemporary backstrips.
Green and Gibson A8a; Sadleir 752
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