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Rare and modern books

Melville Lewis

Victorian Novelists.

Constable, 1906

23.00 €

Island Books

(Devon, United Kingdom)

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Year of publication
1906
Author
Melville Lewis
Publishers
Constable
Keyword
literature, novelists, victorian novelists, lewis melville, saul benjamin, thackeray, trollope, lytton, disraeli, gaskell, lewis melville, literature, victorian, novelists
Languages
English

Description

8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present) and 11 plates, title and a few leaves lightly spotted at margins, free endpapers lightly browned, neat contemporary inscription on half-title; original red cloth, sides elaborately blocked and lettered with frame borders enclosing royal monogram and title, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, backstrip sunned (but all gilt entirely legible) else a very good, firm copy. Meville (pseudonym of Saul Benjamin) provides insightful accounts of Lytton, Disraeli, Jerrold, Lover, Thackeray, Kingsley, Collins, Reade, Trollope, Whyte-Melville, Gaskell, Le Fanu, Kingsley, Oliphant, Payn, Besant and Black. Scarce.