Jezebel's Daughter by COLLINS, Wilkie - 1880

(London): Chatto & Windus, 1880. First Edit. Half-Leather. Very Good.. 8vo. viii; 282; (ii); 281; (ii); 296 pages [ no half-titles present ]. Endpapers browning. Contemporary crimson half calf matching marbled boards, one neat headband repair. Bound without the publisher's catalogue at the rear of volume one. Not in Sadleir. Sensational melodramatic novel, notable for it's sympathetic depiction of the mentally handicaped, namely one 'Jack Straw'. Also features the sinister widow Mrs. Fontaine the poisoner, and embezzler, who is eventually accidentally poisoned by her own concoctions. A nice clean firm copy in a near contemporary binding.