Ward Catherine G Eorge (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. modern cloth, paper label, illustrated, a nice copy. first published 1820; 646 pages; keywords: fiction - women authors;

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. contemporary quarter-leather over marbled boards, re-spined, corners rubbed, frontispiece, advertisement leaves, scattered spotting, ink inscription half-title. shelf-wear, very good. first published 1817; 149 pages; keywords: children s fiction - women authors;

Hardcover. Condition: Good. contemporary full-leather, spine chipped with minor loss, hinges and corners rubbed, illustrated, all edges gilt, spotted throughout, good. first published 1820; 646 pages; keywords: fiction - women authors; (first thus).

Pp.621 + directions to binder (listing 6 plates as here but variant); extra engraved pictorial title, frontispiece and five other plates; light browning & off-setting on plates but a very good copy of this extremely scarce novel in contemporary half calf, gilt, marbled sides, rubbed but sound. Copac records only the Cambridge & Trinity Col., Dublin, copies of the first edition published by Saunders in 1823, and the Birmingham copy of 'Saunders, 1824'. This edition, almost certainly a re-issue put out by the printers with amended title, not recorded by Copac nor WorldCat. Perhaps best known for 'The Mysterious Marriage', Ward seems to have spent most of her writing life in penury despite earning the praise of George Virtue who published seven of her twenty-one novels, which 'all succeeded better than any others I have published.' Letter to Ward in 1832. Not in Sadleir, Block or Wolff who records three of Ward's novels but not this. Melodrama Fiction Women Writers Novel.

First edition. First edition. Engraved frontispiece and title, 7 engraved plates (out of sequence) and 2 plates from another work; 911, [1] pp. 8vo. "This tale, which proved popular, was re-issued" (Summers). Block, p. 248; Summers, p. 325 (for 1827 ed.) Quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt-stamped and titled in ink, front joint starting, frontis shaved at outer margin; very good Engraved frontispiece and title, 7 engraved plates (out of sequence) and 2 plates from another work; 911, [1] pp. 8vo.