first edition , inscribed by the author to Mrs Richmond Ritchie on half title, illustrated throughout by the author, original cream-coloured imitation morocco, inner rear hinge broken, small tear to rear end paper, covers with some wear and soiling, 12mo , [ Schuster 12b], 1894 [1893] Mrs Richmond Ritchie was the eldest daughter of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray and was also an author in her own right writing a number of popular novels. Her husband Sir Richmond Thackeray Willoughby Ritchie, also her cousin, was a civil servant who reached the post of Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India a post he held until his death in 1912.