Eva, a true story, of light and darkness; the ill-omened marriage, and other tales and poems.
London.
Saunders and Otley, 1842.
First edition.
8vo.
xii, 215, [1], 8pp. With four final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary gilt-tooled black calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp.
A handsome copy of the first edition of a miscellaneous collection of poems by sometime viceroy of India and poet Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873); the first of four such publications he issued throughout the 1840s to varying degrees of critical and commercial success.
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref: 27699
