Octavo. Beautifully bound in white parchment-covered boards with hand-painted Florentine red lily emblem to the upper board; elaborate gilt borders and spine decoration; and red morocco title label lettered in gilt. All edges red. Decorative floral endpapers. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece and two plates (one folding). Contemporary previous owner’s inscription in pencil and ink to the half-title page: “Susan Ballard”, “a birthday present from her aunt Susan / Florence”, “Mabel Scott Moncrieff / from S.M.[?] / October 1892”. Photographic postcard depicting soldiers in the trenches sent from the front by Charles Kenneth Moncrieff to his father, with message dated 20.10.14 in pencil, loosely laid in. A very good copy, the binding square and secure with some cracking to the joints. The contents with some light scattered foxing to the preliminary pages are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout.