Pearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem

A smart first edition of this illustrated novel from popular Victorian writer, H. Rider Haggard. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen plates. Collated complete. The tale of a young Christian woman growing up in the Roman Empire during the first century during the Siege of Jerusalem. Written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. With publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. Small splits in the cloth to the board edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with scattered spotting throughout. Minor age toning to the endpapers with bookseller's blind stamp to the front endpaper. Very Good.