Victorian Novelists
MELVILLE, Lewis
Published: Constable, 1906
Stock code: 13572
Price: £20.00
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present) and 11 plates, title and a few leaves lightly spotted at margins, free endpapers lightly browned, neat contemporary inscription on half-title; original red cloth, sides elaborately blocked and lettered with frame borders enclosing royal monogram and title, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, backstrip sunned (but all gilt entirely legible) else a very good, firm copy.
Meville (pseudonym of Saul Benjamin) provides insightful accounts of Lytton, Disraeli, Jerrold, Lover, Thackeray, Kingsley, Collins, Reade, Trollope, Whyte-Melville, Gaskell, Le Fanu, Kingsley, Oliphant, Payn, Besant and Black. Scarce.