Sword Gown: Signed (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, gilt cloth. C.pp316 with 4pp integral advts, slight wear and cloth lightly marked, a very good copy of a scarce and fragile book. Endpaper signed R. J. Aldersey[?] 1859. ** Uncommon. 'A tale of bigamy and the Crimea (climaxing inevitably on the Charge of the Light Brigade), remains enjoyable' [Sutherland]. *** Second novel by the leading exponent of the 'muscular' novel. Lawrence went to Rugby School where he was profoundly affected by Arnold's new public school ethos : thereafter he went in for unconventional novels with sadistic heroes. *** See Wolff noting that his half-dozen Lawrence titles, most in no more than 'respectable' condition, had all been 'painfully assembled'. Wolff 3977 [and Book Collector 1965]. 'I would not be without him if only because for several decades every writer with the slightest sense of humour tried his hand at a parody. It is the turn now of the psychoanalytic critics, who will one day discover Lawrence with cries of joy' [Wolff]. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question. Signed by Author(s).…

Half title, 4pp ads. Original blue diagonal ripple-grained cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt; sl. rubbed. (iv), 300, (4pp ads). Not in Sadleir; see Wolff 3977 for the first edition of 1859 in 312pp. This second edition London Library only on Copac. This is the novelist & journalist Edmund Yates's copy, with his bookplate and signed & dated '60 by him on the titlepage. Sword & Gown is a bigamy story, climaxing in the Charge of the Light Brigade. In 1860, Yates had just taken up the editorship of Temple Bar.…