Pp.621 + directions to binder (listing 6 plates as here but variant); extra engraved pictorial title, frontispiece and five other plates; light browning & off-setting on plates but a very good copy of this extremely scarce novel in contemporary half calf, gilt, marbled sides, rubbed but sound. Copac records only the Cambridge & Trinity Col., Dublin, copies of the first edition published by Saunders in 1823, and the Birmingham copy of 'Saunders, 1824'. This edition, almost certainly a re-issue put out by the printers with amended title, not recorded by Copac nor WorldCat. Perhaps best known for 'The Mysterious Marriage', Ward seems to have spent most of her writing life in penury despite earning the praise of George Virtue who published seven of her twenty-one novels, which 'all succeeded better than any others I have published.' Letter to Ward in 1832. Not in Sadleir, Block or Wolff who records three of Ward's novels but not this. Melodrama Fiction Women Writers Novel.

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Title: The Widow's Choice; [or One, Two Three] A Tale.
Publisher: [Printed &] Published by Bartlett and Hinton, Oxford; and G. Virtue,
Publication Date: 1825
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition

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