The Wanderer's Necklace by HAGGARD, [Sir] Henry Rider (1856-1925), [MICHAEL, A.C., illustrator]

London: Cassell and Company, 1914. [Historical Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 328. With a colour-illustrated frontispiece and three black and white illustrations by Michael. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind titles to upper. Heavy spotting to edges, preliminaries and final leaves; lighter spotting throughout. Spine sunned, with light soiling and marking to cloth. Very good. A narrator tells the story of his recollections of previous lives and romances in Ancient Egypt, Scandinavia and Byzantium. Encapsulated by Bleiler as 'an emasculated 8th century, with Olaf a proper English gentleman of the Victorian period.'. Whatmore, 'H. Rider Haggard: A Bibliography' (London 1987), F41.