Mr. Witt's Widow: A Frivolous Affair

Anthony Hope

Published by Bernard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1892

About this Item

'Collection of British Authors. Vol. 2831. In One Volume.' This is a rather rare copy of the 1892 Bernard Tauchnitz edition (I saw only one other for sale on the Internet). 1892 was the year that this book was first published. Hope would have been only 29. This may been his third novel. You can see the covers in the photos. They look pretty clean. There is a vertical scuff on the marbled part of the front cover. Some more of the same on the rear cover. The gilt lettering on the spine is still fairly bright. There's some bending/creasing at the spine ends, no loss, no tears. The corners look okay, a bit of rubbing. There's some rub-through along parts of some of the edges. The page edges look pretty clean. The spine has a forward lean, but the book seems to be pretty solidly bound. It has a twined binding. There are no cracks or spaces between the covers and any of the pages. The binding of the pages is pretty decent. I didn't see any cracks. Maybe a couple of slight spaces or a bit of flattening at a juncture, nothing significant. The pages look good as well. There are quite clean. It was only toward the end of the book that I found a few spots restricted to the margin of a few pages. There's not much by way of creasing, nothing conspicuous. The inside covers and end papers are clean but toned. There is a kind of shriveled and faded ribbon in the book. There are no markings. No attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. I'm pricing the book quite inexpensively. Some Internet reviewer said that 'Mr. Witt's Widow: A Frivolous Tale is one of the greatest works by the Anthony Hope.' I have no idea. 'Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope, was an English novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered predominantly for two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature, are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania and spawned the genre known as Ruritanian romance, works set in fictional European locales similar to the novels. Zenda has inspired many adaptations, most notably the 1937 Hollywood movie of the same name.'. Seller Inventory # 003414

Bibliographic Details

Title: Mr. Witt's Widow: A Frivolous Affair

Publisher: Bernard Tauchnitz, Leipzig

Publication Date: 1892

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good Plus