THE LAW AND THE LADY (2 Volume set, complete) (Collection of British Authors. Vol. 1475)

Collins, Wilkie

Published by Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1875

About this Item

1st edition, thus (1st Continental Edition). 2 volume set, complete. A Very Good set. 12mo., [Vol.1] 298; [Vol.2] 332 pp. Bound in quarter red leather and marbled paper boards, with title and volume on the five compartment spine in gilt. All edges marbled. Yellow end papers. Moderate shelf wear, mostly at the tips, with a small pull at the spine's crown in vol. 1. Spines darkened, with rubbing along the joints. Text pages age-toning. Hinges very strong. William Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889) was an English novelist known especially for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery novel and early "sensation novel", and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre. Christian Bernhard Tauchnitz, German publisher, paid the English authors for the works his company published, and agreed to limit their sales of English-language books to the European continent. In 1841, Tauchnitz started his English-language editions, with the series "Collection Of British Authors". Although Tauchnitz's editions were authorized, and listed as the 'Copyright Edition', they were not protected from copyright infringement and he could offer no such protection to the authors he paid.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE LAW AND THE LADY (2 Volume set, complete) (Collection of British Authors. Vol. 1475)
• Publisher: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig
• Publication Date: 1875
• Binding: Leather
• Edition: 1st edition, thus.
• Condition: Very Good