First Edition of Allingham's The Music Master

Allingham, William, THE MUSIC MASTER, A LOVE STORY. AND TWO SERIES OF DAY AND NIGHT SONGS (London: G. Routledge & Co., 1855).  First edition, 17 x 10.5cm (8vo), in publisher's dark blue vertically ribbed wavy-grain cloth w/blind-stamped decorations (lyre device framed by a decorative border) to covers & gilt decorations & title to spine, pale yellow ep.s, [i-vii] viii-xiii [xiv-xvi], [1-3] 4-221 [222], [1-2 publ. adverts] pp. +tipped-in wood engraved frontis & 8 plates (Milly in facsimile) by the Dalziels after Arthur Hughes, D.G. Rossetti & J.E. Millais, & numerous vignettes & ornaments after Hughes.  Printed by Savill & Edwards, London.  With the ticket of W. & E. Pickering, Bath to fr. pastedown, & small sig. of Ralph Abercrombie to recto of fr. ep.  Binding Very Good (extremities sl. rubbed, & spine a bit darkened w/head reinforced); contents Very Good (some foxing to a few leaves).  Athenæum 15 Aug. 1855 p.943 (by H.F. Chorley), White passim, Rossetti 1 (p.41), Reid passim, Fredeman 46.4 & 90.2 (see also p.186), Lasner 4.2 (his "primary" binding), de Beaumont 7, Goldman 6 (see also p.2).  (Inv. #638)  C$1,500 Home Page