170x110mm brown gilt prize leather on 5 faux raised band and dark red title label and gilt and tooled decoration to spine with circular monogram of the City of London College for Ladies with gilt-tooled rules to both covers & blind-tooled reverses (edges rubbed slightly marked). Nice prize inscription to Miss Leigh 1866 and name F.S. Leigh-Browne on blank endpaper. All edges Rouged. Frontis + titlepage +374pp +1 leaf of contents. Marginal damp mark to lower corner affecting a few words of the lowest lines of text but all readable and not affecting strength of paper, foxing to about 6 leaves else all pages bright and crisp. A handsome prize binding, text in French includes 13 stories.