Granby, A Novel
Lister, Thomas Henry
| Publication Date |
1826 |
| Publisher |
Franckfurt O. M. Printed for Charles Jugel at the German and Foreign Library |
| Binding |
Hardback |
| Condition |
Very good copy |
| SKU |
24121 |
| Notes |
Slight toning to page margins. Rubbed to edges Clean and sound. |
Description
Hardback. Half bound in leather with marbled papers to the boards. First edition thus and a very early copy of this Silver-fork novel. This is the complete text in English published in two volumes and bound in one. Vol I is 1826 contemporary with the English first edition. Vol. II is 1828. Bookplate of Lord Farnham to the endpaper. Gilt titles to spine with gilt decorated raised bands to same. Marbled to closed page edges. Silver-fork novels, dealing with the concerns of the upper classes became popular in the nineteenth century and Thomas Henry Lister was an early and popular writer in this style: Lister’s skill with dialogue and centrality to the genre have been noted 1. His rather more practical day job was as the first Registrar General in charge of introducing the registration and certification of births, marriages and deaths in 1836. He also was in charge of the first census in 1841. Granby remains a readable novel and would appeal to anyone who enjoys works from Jane Austen to Georgette Heyer. Henry Granby is an engaging hero. It is surprising that Granby is long out of print and and is currently not even available on one of the online portals for reading oop books, as such it is hard to find. 1 Rosa, Matthew Whiting, The Silver-Fork School: Novels of Fashion Preceding Vanity Fair (1964) .
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