King Solomon's Mines sexplosion Engraved frontispiece in vol I

Engraved frontispiece in vol I (with tissue guard) by William Hogarth is toned with residual offsetting to the titlepage

by Henry Steiner

Paris: Olympia Press

Signed presentation copy from the artist together with a hastily-sketched drawing inside the front cover of a man in a hat talking to a woman with naked breasts

Orig pictorial boards with the price-clipped dust-wrapper

King Solomon's Mines sexplosion Engraved frontispiece in vol ILondon: Cassell, 1886 . 8vo. Thirty fourth thousand edition of the classic adventure story. Includes chromolithographed folding frontispiece, torn without loss. Original red cloth with black lettering, title on spine gilt. Top and bottom of spine slightly bumped, a few small spots of water damage to cloth, staining to bottom rear panel. Light foxing to titlepage, insides otherwise clean.