Full Title:

A Fly in Amber: being an extravagant biography of the romantic antiquary Sir Robert Bruce Cotton

Publication:

London, Faber and Faber, 1962

Binding:

Crown octavo, 9 ¾ in. x 5 ¾ in.; all edges trimmed; gilt italic lettering on spine with gilt and orange device, front cover blank. Spine: [in gilt shield device with an orange ground] A | Fly | in | Amber | [in gilt, below device] HOPE | MIRRLEES | FABER (see image above).

Notes:

Volume I of planned two part biography. According to Swanwick, Part II was written but never published.

This copy is inscribed in ballpoint on the FFEP, in HM's hand:

To | Sam David & Essie | from | their faithful (after her fashion) | friend | H.M.