8vo, purple and white pictorial cloth, gilt titles, 344pp. First thus. Unclipped dust jacket (30s net) heavily toned to panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A historical novel of 16th century Rome by the English decadent novelist, Catholic convert and seminary dropout, with a glossary printed in appendix for de-coding his invented words. The drawing on the jacket is from Rolfe’s own design sketch for the binding. A very good copy in mylar.