VENETIA (2 Volume set, complete) (Collection of British Authors. Vol. 457)

Disraeli, Benjamin

Published by Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1858

About this Item

1st edition, thus (1st Continental Edition). 2 volume set, complete. A Very Good set. 12mo., [Vol.1] 329; [Vol.2] 316 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. Spine darkened, with rubbing along the joints. Text pages beginning to age-tone. Hinges very strong. Venetia is a minor novel by Benjamin Disraeli, published in 1837, the year he was first elected to the House of Commons. The novel is a lightweight romantic fantasy. A contemporary reviewer, writing in an 1854 issue of the New Monthly Review, declared that he "liked it least of all Disraeli's works.". 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. Seller Inventory # 30871

Bibliographic Details

Title: VENETIA (2 Volume set, complete) (Collection...

Publisher: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig

Publication Date: 1858

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good

Edition: Copyright Edition.