FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 338 + 34 b/w plates. Original green cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt, gilt-stamped bamboo motif to upper board. Top edge gilt. Bruising and wear to spine ends and corners, spine rubbed. Photograph showing two women in nursing uniform, inscribed with: “May Lamington & Grisell,” tipped in to front pastedown, light offsetting to ffep, plus PO inscription in sepia pen and the same hand: ‘“Each of us has so much to give/ that we never meet in Vain, and/ so much to receive that we part/ with thanks” - Carmen Sylva.’ Newspaper clipping, ‘Scottish Society Wedding,’ announcing the marriage of Grisell and Lieutenant-Commander Hastings at Lamington Chapel laid in. Foxed, else, clean and tight. A pleasing copy of Tibbits’ genre-crossing second book. Jisc LHD lists eight British and Irish holdings (BL, Bodleian, UoCambridge, UoExeter, NLW/LGC, NLS, UoSwansea & TCD)