8vo. Limited edition of 100 copies. xxix, [1], 180pp, [2]. With a half-title and a portrait frontispiece. Uncut and unopened. Bound for the publisher by Riviere & Son in red crushed morocco, lettered in gilt to spine, T.E.G. Minor shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, internally clean and crisp.

A handsomely bound, limited edition, of five philosophical tales ('The Tree of Knowledge', 'Loneliness', 'Bona Mors', 'An Impression of Westminster' and 'A Ligurian Paradise') by William Arkwright (1857-1925), primarily remembered as the author of highly regarded manual on hunting dogs, The Pointer and His Predecessors (1906).