LOTHAIR (2 Volume set, complete) (Collection of British Authors. Vol. 1094)

Disraeli, Benjamin

Verlag: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1870

Beschreibung

1st edition, thus (1st Continental Edition). 2 volume set, complete. A Very Good set. 12mo., [Vol.1] 312; [Vol.2] 303 pp. Bound in quarter red leather and marbled paper boards, with title and volume on the five compartment spine in gilt. All edges marbled. Yellow end papers. Moderate shelf wear, mostly at the tips. Spine darkened, with rubbing along the joints. Text pages beginning to age-tone. Hinges very strong. Lothair (1870) was a late novel by Benjamin Disraeli, the first he wrote after his first term as Prime Minister. It deals with the comparative merits of the Catholic and Anglican churches as heirs of Judaism, and with the topical question of Italian unification. Though Lothair was a hugely popular work among 19th century readers, it now to some extent lies in the shadow of the same author's Coningsby and Sybil. Christian Bernhard Tauchnitz, German publisher, paid the English authors for the works his company published, and agreed to limit their sales of English-language books to the European continent. In 1841, Tauchnitz started his English-language editions, with the series "Collection Of British Authors". Although Tauchnitz's editions were authorized, and listed as the 'Copyright Edition', they were not protected from copyright infringement and he could offer no such protection to the authors he paid. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 30870

Bibliografische Details

Titel: LOTHAIR (2 Volume set, complete) (Collection...

Verlag: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig

Erscheinungsdatum: 1870

Einband: Leather

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: Copyright Edition.