Marrin's Bookshop

Item Description

8vo. 7.75 x 5.5 inches. 315 pp. + [1[ pp. colophon+ [4] pp. publisher's advertisements. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, with colour block on front board. Extremities worn including corners and head and tail of spine which is slightly sunned. Heavy foxing of preliminary pages and scattered throughout; otherwise a good copy. 1906 signature, possibly of publishing family, on first free endpaper. Decorated by colophon. A romantic tale set against the backdrop of the French Revolution. As a contemporary review states 'Gives delightful pictures of an English household, and of old Folkestone generally.' A scarce work of historical fiction.