A Book of Golden Deeds, Of All Times and All Lands (Blackie's Famous Books)

Not dated but circa 1935. x, 352pp plus colour plate frontispiece and three further colour plate illustrations, all by Paul Hardy. Blue cloth-covered boards with elaborate blind embossed and tooled decoration, gilt lettering to spine (boards a little rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, lightly faded along upper edge). Prize presentation bookplate on front free endpaper, indicating the volume was presented to one Betty Peel in 1938. Small bookseller's ticket (Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle) on front paste down. Free endpapers tanned, and occasional spotting, including on text block edges. Tight and square. In its original dust jacket (nicked and chipped at edges, minor loss around head of spine, shelf wear visible on verso). Yonge was a popular19th century authoress whose writing was influenced by Keble and the Oxford Movement. Her most commercially successful novel was The Heir of Radclyffe (1853). The Book of Golden Deeds was first published in 1864.