1900 The Story of Malta by Maturin M. Ballou. (Bookplate of Herbert G. Squiers)'The Story of Malta' by Maturin M. Ballou, printed and published by Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin & Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1900. The volume is three quarter bound in blue calf leather with blue cloth boards. Top page edge gilt. Five raised bands to the spine with gilt stamped title and decoration. There is some fading to the spine leather and some shelf wear to the lower extremities but the volume generally remains in a very