The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy [THE FOLIO SOCIETY] 1997

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy 

LIMITED COLLECTOR'S EDITION [1997] THE FOLIO SOCIETY U.K.

Third Printing / 1998. 

Beautiful limited collector's edition with abstract full colour illustrations by Lucy Weller.  

Hardcover in printed and blocked cloth with frontispiece and slip case.  Printed in London / 1998 by The Folio Society.

Book is like new.  Slip case has has some mild water staining to left side. 

Armed with only his wits and his cunning, one man recklessly defies the French revolutionaries and rescues scores of innocent men, women, and children from the deadly guillotine. His friends and foes know him only as the Scarlet Pimpernel. But the ruthless French agent Chauvelin is sworn to discover his identity and to hunt him down.