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This is a unique book!  It was sent in by a rare book blog reader.  If anyone can provide any details about this book, we would greatly appreciate it!

Here is the information sent with the photographs:

The cover is green cloth, and the figures you see there are stamped rather deeply into the cloth. The edges of the pages at the top of the book are gilt, but the sides and bottom of them are ragged and uneven and seem hand-cut. There are no illustrations other than the one in the photos, and this and the title page were done by one Mr. Norman Ault.  All the copyright page says is
 
First edition: printed 1902.
Second edition, revised and enlarged, printed 1904
 
Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.,
At the Ballantyne Press
 
The title page (pictured) says:
THE MABI
NOGION
MEDIAVAL WELSH
ROMANCES TRANS-
LATED BY
LADY CHARLOTTE
GVEST
WITH NOTES BY
ALFRED NVTT
AND PVBLISHED BY
DAVID NVUTT AT
THE SIGN OF THE
PHOENIX
LONG ACRE 1904
 
It is dedicated to the memory of Lady Charlotte Guest.

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