Devereux : A Tale [TWO VOLUMES]
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1860. Library edition. Half brown roan, over marbled boards, plain endpapers. 344, [2, blank]; 350 [4, blank] pp. 7.5" x 5" Touches of wear and rubbing extremities, few spots of soiling darkening to endpapers, overall tight and square, internally clean and crisp, very good plus. Item #244787
A VICTORIAN TALE OF SIBLING RIVALRY
Originally published anonymously in 1829, Devereux is a historical novel set in the late Stuart and early Hanoverian periods. Known for his theatrical and picturesque historical fiction, English writer and politician Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) here tells the story of a bitter sibling rivalry set against a Jacobite plot surrounding the succession after Queen Anne.
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