John: A love story. by OLIPHANT (Mrs. [Margaret]) - 1870

By Mrs Oliphant, Author of ‘Chronicles of Carlingford,’ etc. In two volumes. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1870. The Right of Translation is reserved. Cr.8vo (probably, but trimmed); half-titles not present and possibly not called for, but blank or advertisement leaf lacking at end of volume two; single inseet title-pages, that to volume oone probably printed conjugate with first leaf of final gathering; pp.[ii]+317+[i (blank)]; [ii]+324; recent quarter pale green calf, old cream paper-covered sides; cream paper spine label printed in black. Very slight marking to boards; unobtrusive repairs to old end-papers; otherwise a very nice copy. Apparently very scarce. Not to be confused with the 1851 title ‘John Drayton’. NCBEL, 3:955; not in Wolff (who found 85 of her 95 titles: v. note, Wolff, Vol. 3, p.217), or in Sadleir (who found 62); COPAC lists only the British Library, Oxford, Cambridge, National Library of Scotland, and London Library copies. Sadleir notes the general high level of scarcity of Mrs. Oliphant’s fictions. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated.