145, [1] pp. Blue cloth, gilt and white titles, front board depicts a boy carrying a book and a huge quill pen and riding a giant bat, with the book and quill motif repeated on the spine. Engraved frontispiece and illustrations from drawings by L. Speed. A pseudonymous novel by the English writer and suffragette Ada Ellen Bayly. Her work Hope the Hermit was an inspiration for Hugh Walpole's Rogue Herries.
