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Rare jacketed copy of London's first book. Dustjacket art duplicates in printed black on beige paper the book's distinctive "belt-buckle" cover design. Unrestored. First printing of London's first book. Identifiable by collation (per BAL) or by two more obvious issue points which have recently been identified: first issue has tipped-in frontispiece, later issues with frontispiece sewn in; first issue has comma after the year (1900) on copyright page, later issues have punctuation corrected with a period. First printing was only 2028 copies. BAL 11869; Sisson & Martens, p. 1.