SIGNED BOOK. – Frances Hodgson BURNETT. A Lady of Quality. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1896. Fourth edition, signed and inscribed by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 8vo (190 x 127mm.) Frontispiece, 4pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Light spotting to preliminaries, marginal loss to last leaf of publisher’s advertisements.) Original green cloth, blind-stamped, gilt lettering to upper cover and spine (lightly bumped). Note: Burnett has hand-written a quote from chapter XXI of the novel. It reads: ‘‘It’s a bitter thing when the bird that flutters within has only little wings. All the more should those who are strong protect and comfort them’, Frances Hodgson Burnett, ‘98’.