London: John Murray, 1901. Small octavo, original green decorated cloth with decorated yapp fore edges. Covers have four red flowers along inner margin of front cover, spine and yapp fore edges have green floral decoration, lettering in gilt. top edges gilt, decorated endpapers. pp (viii), (130), (2, ads) + 6 plates with captioned tissue guards + bound-in ribbon marker. Decorations by Charles Edward Hooper. The fifth volume in Murray's Half-Crown Novels series. Spine and inner margins of covers lightly sunned, light flaking to gilt lettering on front cover, else a bright and tight near fine copy, no owners. Previously published in New York in 1900, this short historical romance was Tarkington's second book. It was later adapted as a play and an operetta, and was the basis of two films. in 1924 and 1946, the first starring Rudolph Valentino. A nice piece of fin-de-siècle bookmaking - unusual to see decorated yapp edges.