ARCHIPELAGO ON FIRE

Early UK edition. Original green cloth with titles and illustrations in black and gilt to the spine and upper board. Illustrated with 50 black and white engravings, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece. A very good copy, the binding firm, the edges lightly rubbed. The contents, with a contemporary pencil gift inscription to the front free endpaper and some spotting to the text block edge, prelims and occasionally to the margins, are otherwise clean throughout.

An adventure novel set during the Greek War of Independence. The first printing of the first British edition was published in 1886