THE ROMANCE OF ISABEL LADY BURTON. The Story of Her Life.

Early One Volume Edition containing the same 778 pp. in one volume as was included in the two volume issue. Illustrated throughout with a profusion of full page plates from photographs and drawings and paintings. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original off-white cloth over blue cloth covered boards, the spine and cover lettered in gilt and decorated with a facsimile of Lady Burton's signature in gilt to the center of the upper cover, top edge gilt. xvi, [1], 778 pp. A very fine beautifully preserved copy, the spine panel slightly mellowed.

Edizione: early one volume edition of this significant study. as sir richard burton’s wife, confidante, and fellow-adventurer, isabel burton led one of the most intriguing lives of any woman during the victorian era here is her own story, culled from letters, journals, and a memoir left unfinished at her death.<br> a reviewer for punch proclaimed, ‘to know lady burton as she stands revealed in this book is a privilege calculated to make women proud and man even humbler than is his wont.’