MARCHMONT. A novel

by SMITH.CHARLOTTE.;

Price: £1,500.00 ($ 2438.55)
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Sampson Low.London.,1796. FIRST EDITION.Four volumes.12mo.Finely bound in contemporary polished half calf,blue marbled boards,spines simply gilt.Without half-titles,but with terminal advert leaf in vol.IV.Booklabel of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft [of Halsteads,Yorkshire],with his ownership inscription on titles.Light rubbing, ower joint of vol.III just splitting at head,still an excellent copy.First Edition of one of Mrs Smith’s less common and less well-known novels,published at the height of her popularity,and full of the gothic and picaresque incident that was the hallmark of her success,“much movement,”as W. L. Renwick in OHEL puts it,“and few illusions about human nature.”.Scott said of her novels that she “preserves in her landscapes the truth and precision of a painter” (Dorset, 64),and Barbauld credits Smith with pioneering sustained natural description in novels.Block,p.220.Hardy 760.:

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