Red boards with red spine strip and faded gilt print.The head is bumped, and there's a discreet circular bookseller's stamp on the back end paper, else a clean, unmarked and solid copy. The book is undated and worldcat only offer a 1913 and 1914 for the Gill editions, none without a date. Like all red heads, this one is ageless and I would not like to hazard a date. xi, 340 pages. Rene Bazin, 1853-1932, "..contributed to Parisian journals a series of sketches of provincial life and descriptions of travel, and wrote Stephanette (1884), but he made his reputation with Une Tache d'Encre (A Spot of Ink) (1888), which received a prize from the Academy. He was admitted to the Académie française on 28 April 1904, to replace Ernest Legouvé." (Wikipedia)