Colonel Quaritch V.C. A Tale of Country Life.

H. Rider Haggard

Verlag: Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1888

Beschreibung

First edition. 1888. 3 Vols. Original red cloth boards have significant wear with bumped corners, some fraying to cloth at corners and heads and tails of spines. Some marks and staining to boards. Spines faded. Each volume has a "Mudies Select Library" sticker to front board, Vol I has a second sticker over this from "Joseph S. Ladds" Bayswater Library. Internally all volumes have light foxing and occasional smudges and marks throughout. Volume one binding is slightly weak but holding. Vol I, P.247, Vol II, P.263, Vol III, P.261. The Authors last work to be printed in three volumes, in an edition of 3,000 copies. A Fair to good set. Between 1842 and 1894 Charles Edward Mudie's lending library influenced Victorian literature, particularly fiction, in two chief ways: first, by making sure that almost all novels appeared in three volumes, it had important effects on the structure, plot, style, and even imaginative worlds of the Victorian novel; and second, by acting as a censor who demanded fiction suited to the middle-class family, it controlled the subject, scope, and morality of the novel for fifty years. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000258

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Colonel Quaritch V.C. A Tale of Country Life.

Verlag: Longmans, Green & Co., London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1888

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fair

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: 1st Edition