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New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers Leather/cloth. Good. First Thus. Fiction. Also included in this leather/gilt banded binding is Rob Roy, A Novel by Sir Walter Scott, pub. T.B. Peterson and Brothers, 129 pg. ads., Gold Silver Lead, A Collection of Original Stories, Edited by Mrs. Valentine, a group of stories, 96 pg., engravings includes 2pg. of double acrostics; and Pelham: or, Adventures of a Gentleman, complete in one Vol., by Edward Lytton Bulwer, Esq., M.P., Publ Phillips, Sampson, and Company, Boston, 1850. pg. have some slight staining; spine chipped, cracked. Rare issue.. Hardcover. Good.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1848-1853. Leather. Good. 7" by 5". Various. A fourteen volume uniformly bound set of the works of 'Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton', each with illustrated frontispieces. Fourteen volumes. Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton was an English novelist, playwright, and politician. One of the greatest novelists of his day, Bulwer-Lytton"s literary career began in 1820, with the publication of his first book of poems, and continued throughout the nineteenth century. He wrote in a variety of genres, including historical fiction, mystery, romance, the occult and science fiction, offering a fascinating insight into the Victorian era. In 1828 he attracted general attention with Pelham, an intimate study of the dandyism of the age that kept gossips busy in identifying the characters with the leading men of the time. By 1833, he had reached the height of his popularity with Godolphin, followed by The Pilgrims of the Rhine (1834), The Last Days of Pompeii (1834), Rienzi (1835), and… Read More