Trilby by George Du Maurier - Margaret Armstrong cover design

Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1895. Early printing. Bound in tan cloth with spider's web, spider and wings illustration on front cover. 464pp. plus 4 pp ads. Cast of the 1906 theater production in St. Louis pencilled on front pastedown. 

Originally published serially in Harper's Monthly in 1894. 

One of the most popular novels of it's time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siecle after Bram Stoker's Dracula. Subject of 7 movies and a musical, including Phantom of the Opera