An anonymous cover for Alfred H. Miles’s ‘Fifty-two Stories’ (original) (raw)

Cloth binding for ‘Fifty Two Stories of Courage’

Unsigned

[1901]

Cloth binding gilt

8½ x 5¾ inches

A splendidly dynamic front cover for Miles’s book of derring-do and swashbuckling action. [Commentary continues below.]

Scan by a collector and text by Simon Cooke [Click on image to enlarge it, and mouse over the text for links.]

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