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First edition, 3 volumes, 12mo, pp. vii, [1], 288; [4], 257, [1]; [4], 247, [1], [4] ads; leaf of ads on yellow paper tipped in after the last page of text in volume I; s., original blue paper-covered boards, brown paper shelfback, printed paper labels on spines; corners worn, labels darkened, slight cracking at spine extremities; overall a very good copy. Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby (1797-1863) was a Whig politician and diplomat, but does not appear to have been particularly adroit. The DNB describes his diplomacy as "precipitate, indiscreet, querulous, and blundering." "Normanby also wrote four romantic novels, Matilda (1825), Yes and No (1828), Clorinda (1829), and The Contrast (1832). These contain some wittily observed scenes, but his ideas were commonplace and his style almost gushing" (DNB). Sadleir 1830; Wolff 5548.