Author: [Frederic Condé Williams]
Title: The Terrible Tale of a Lion (from Victor Hugo) with Other Paraphrases and Poems. Chiefly About Childhood and Children by a Colonial Judge.
Description: Birmingham, Martin Billing, n.d. Not dated. Inscribed 1900. Original paper covered boards printed in red and black. Landscape format, 14x11cm. one copy in COPAC. Internally very clean and tight. Stain and a few tears to upper board. Published for Private Circulation. Used; Very Good Author's presentation copy to Mrs Cornbridge. Collection of stories adapted from the French with poems by Frederic Condé Williams (author of 'Journalistic Jumbles or Trippings in Type'). F. Condé Williams, a vicar's son from Sheffield, made a career in journalism and law. He later became a judge in the Colonial service (Mauritius and Jamaica). Hardback.

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