Original lavender cloth, lettered in black on front board and in gilt on spine. Corners scuffed, two tiny pin-holes on spine, light foxing, faint signature and bookplate on front endpapers, very good. A collection of 12 stories, which had been "laid up" since their original publication in The Cornhill Magazine (and elsewhere) in the late 1880s and early 1890s: Lady Betty's Indiscretion, The Surgeon's Guest, The Colonel's Boy, A Good Man's Dilemma, Bab, Gerald, Joanna's Bracelet, The Body-Birds of Court, The Vicar's Secret, The Other Englishman, King Pepin and Sweet Clive, & Family Portraits.