Beautiful book. Dark blue cover with gold, silver and grey image depicting Slander’s avenger riding through the night perched upon a giant bat before a crescent moon, quill & book in hand. Page edges gilt. “Lyall” was a Unitarian of the liberal persuasion who argued for women’s suffrage, English injustices in Ireland, and the immorality of the Boer War. In this title she shows how a freedom loving Russian Democrat is destroyed by the false label of ‘nihilist’. Other books she published were Donovan, We Two, In the Golden Days, Knight Errant, etc. Sadleir 1454a. Wolff 4206.; Drawings