At the Mercy of Tiberius
Evans Wilson, Augusta J.
| Publisher |
Wlter Scott Ltd., |
| Binding |
Hardback |
| Condition |
Good+, sound copy |
| SKU |
24103 |
| Notes |
Cloth is slightly faded to the spine and with soem ingrained dustiness to the edges and occasional faint mark. It remains an attractive copy. |
Description
Hardback. 388pp+ publisher’s ads. No date but Oldham Temperance Society prize label dated 1897. Full decorated cloth binding. Novel by Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, in her day one the most popular writers in the United Sates and was the “first woman to make $100,000 dollars from her writing”1. Her support of the confederacy in the American Civil War has however affected her legacy. Red cloth heavily decorated with blue and yellow flowers and a gilt banner with titles in relief surrounded by a decorative black border of flowers. Bevelled edges to boards. Black and white frontis and five further illustrations by T. Eyre Macklin. 1 The Life and Works of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, 1835-1909 by Brenda Ayers, abingdon: Ashgate, 2012, p. 1.
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