The Weaker Vessel.
London.
William Heinemann, 1913.
First edition.
8vo.
[4], 316pp, [16]. Original publisher's brown cloth boards lettered and tooled in black. Bottom edge untrimmed, all edges a little foxed, internally bright with an ink gift inscription dated 22/3/1913 to FFEP. Bookseller label of Roffey and Clarke, Croydon, to rear pastedown.
E. F. Benson's thirty-first stand-alone novel, a classically wry send up of Edwardian high society.
E. F. Benson (1867-1940) was an extremely prolific English writer, completing over fifty novels, four novel series, short stories, plays, biographies, and other non-fiction works on subjects as varied as golf and grave digging. His last work, his third autobiography, was delivered to his publisher just ten days before his death.
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E. F. Benson (1867-1940) was an extremely prolific English writer, completing over fifty novels, four novel series, short stories, plays, biographies, and other non-fiction works on subjects as varied as golf and grave digging. His last work, his third autobiography, was delivered to his publisher just ten days before his death.
