Louis Norbert

Lee, Vernon (Pseud. Violet Paget)

Published by London John Lane The Bodley Head 1914, 1914

First edition. 303 pages + 24 of ads. The book is firmly bound in the publisher's greyish brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and brown, the cloth is somewhat marked and rubbed and the extremities are bumped. The text block is foxed, dusty, slightly marked and age toned, with blue ink staining to the outer edges of the catalogue to the rear, and some dog-eared page corners. A late, mostly epistolatory, novel by Lee, set partly in the 20th century and partly in the 17th, the modern communications between the bewitching Lady Venetia and a young archaeologist. There are hints of the supernatural in the connection between the modern and the historical, when Lady Venetia recounts how as a child she was locked by her brother in The Ghost Room, where she slipped into a trance in front of a painting of Louis Norbert and fell in love with his image, thereafter secretly revisiting the painting until her marriage, sometimes dressing up for the occasion. Seller Inventory # 6442

Bibliographic Details

Title: Louis Norbert
Publisher: London John Lane The Bodley Head 1914
Publication Date: 1914
Edition: 1st Edition