8vo. 68pp, iv. With two final advertisement leaves. Original publisher's printed pictorial blue wrappers. Rubbed and marked, with chipping to head and foot of spine. Leaves browned.

An abridged edition of 'the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century' (Lifton, 2009), Union General Lew Wallace's (1827- 1905) tale of the Jewish prince Judah Ben-Hur and the simultaneous advent of Christ at the beginning of the first century. Number seven in the "Review of Review's" Masterpiece Library, Penny Popular Novels series.