C1912 The Cloister and the Hearth: A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles online Reade. Beautifully Illustrated by Gordon Browne. FIRST EDITION

This is a beautiful first edition of The Cloister and the Hearth: A Tale of the Middle Ages, by Charles Reade.

Beautifully illustrated by Gordon Browne. Published by W & R Chambers Limited.

Bound in a blue cloth with pictorial inlay on the upper cover and elaborate gilt lettering and decoration on the upper cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Twenty colour illustrations and numerous line drawings by Gordon Browne.

The boards are in good condition with some light rubbing/bumping to online the corners and to the head and tail of the spine. The contents are slightly age toned with a little spotting to the preliminaries and endpapers. Otherwise nothing to note.

Originally published in 1861, this tale of the conflict between loyalty to church and family, is here beautifully illustrated by Gordon Browne, son of Hablot Brown [Phiz] who illustrated many of Dickens's novels.

This book weighs 925g without packaging and measures approx 21cm x 16cm.

Overall an extremely attractive and collectable book.