Love Among the Lions: A Matrimonial Experience

First edition. vi, 120 pp. Burgundy cloth with illustration of Cupid on a lion in gilt to front, gilt lettering to front and spine. Spine ends slightly bumped and light sunning to spine; foxing to endpapers. Thomas Anstey Guthrie was a trained lawyer and humorist writer, gaining popular success with 'Vice Versa', 'The Tinted Venus' and also regularly contributing to Punch magazine. He wrote his comic novels under the pseudonym, 'F. Anstey', including this one set in London. Title: Love Among the Lions: A Matrimonial Experience Author Name: Anstey, F. [Guthrie, Thomas Anstey] Edition: First Edition Location Published: London, J. M. Dent & Co. [1898]: 1898 Binding: Gilt Decorated Cloth Book Condition: Very Good Size: Small 8vo. Categories: Literature, Modern First Editions, Humour Book number: 73786 Keywords: experience, humour, matrimonial