John Halifax, Gentleman by Miss Mulock (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik) - 1897

New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1897 Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York.1897. Hardcover. Reprint Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/OPrivate Library stamp on the FFFP. Book Condition: Good+; light wear to head, tail, and tips; occasional edge bump; frontispiece gl. No Jacket. Grey cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering on the spine and front board with green and white floral designs on the spine and front board. Clean internals. Internal hinges are sound. Gilt textblock top. Pen & ink drawing illustrated. 540 pp 8vo. This novel, published in 1856, was one of the popular and beloved novels in the Victorian era. It is told in the first person by Phineas Fletcher, an invalid son of a Quaker tanner who is presented to us in the beginning as a lonely youth. John Halifax, the first friend he ever had, is a poor orphan who is taken in by his father to help in the work which his sickly son can't constantly do. Phineas tells us in an unforgettable way how John succeeded in rising from his humble beginning and become a wealthy and successful man. But with the money come horrible troubles... In an unforgettable manner, we learn to know all the characters of the novel as if they really lived. A clean very presentable copy.