"Newly edited from the original MSS by Israel Gollancz". Top edge gilt (faintly spotted); marbled endpapers and bookplate. Osborne’s letters were first published in 1888, and were a Victorian bestseller — they were edited and modernized in spelling, punctuation and syntax, by Judge Parry. This edition, produced fifteen years later was edited by Israel Gollancz, largely based on Parry’s earlier work, though corrected by comparison with the original letters at the British Museum. Parry sued for breach of copyright. The case of Parry v. Moring and Gollancz established that derivative works, such as edited texts, of non-copyrightable materials can themselves be copyrighted. The resulting judgement called for all unsold copies of this edition, and the stereo plates from which they were printed, be turned over. Though not rare, this edition is uncommon, and this copy has newspaper clippings regarding the case affixed to several of the blank preliminary and terminal leaves.