The Head of the Family...Part I..
London.
Horace Marshall & Son., [s.d., c. 1900]
First edition.
8vo.
60pp, iv. With a terminal catalogue of advertisements.
[Together with:] [CRAIK, Dinah]. The Head of the Family...Part II (abridged). London. Horace Marshall, [s.d., c. 1900]. First edition. 8vo. 60pp, iv. With a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements.
Stapled, as issued, in original publisher's printed blue paper wrappers. Rubbed and marked, with toning to wrappers - heavier to Part II - loss to spines, staples rusted. Leaves lightly browned.
[Together with:] [CRAIK, Dinah]. The Head of the Family...Part II (abridged). London. Horace Marshall, [s.d., c. 1900]. First edition. 8vo. 60pp, iv. With a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements.
Stapled, as issued, in original publisher's printed blue paper wrappers. Rubbed and marked, with toning to wrappers - heavier to Part II - loss to spines, staples rusted. Leaves lightly browned.
An apparently unrecorded abridgement of the fourth published novel of English novelist and poet Dinah Maria Craik (1826-1887). Craik is best known today for her second novel, The Ogilvies (1849), and her acclaimed industrial novel, John Halifax, Gentleman (1856).
£ 100.00
Antiquates Ref: 34683
