LORD ORMONT AND HIS AMINTA: A Novel. In Three Volumes
by Meredith, George
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- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Yarmouth, Maine, United States
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About This Item
1894. London: Chapman and Hall, 1894. Original olive green cloth decorated in black.
First Edition of Meredith's last three-decker novel, which consisted of 1,500 copies -- published, in fact, in the final year of the three-volume format, as the lending libraries had finally lost their decades-long control over the publishing of English fiction. The next year would see Meredith's last multi-volume novel, THE AMAZING MARRIAGE in two volumes, which would carry through with the same topic as LORD ORMONT -- that a woman should be free to leave a marriage in which her husband does not consider her to be an equal partner. This set is in close-to-fine condition -- very light rubbing on some edges, but essentially no other wear nor soil. The spine gilt is intact but we have never seen a copy of this title with what we could call gleaming gilt. Collie XIV; Sadleir 1699; Wolff 4740. Provenance: each front free endpaper bears the penciled signature "Simon Nowell-Smith | July 1936" -- the bibliophile and author of such books as EDWARDIAN ENGLAND and THE HOUSE OF CASSELL and THE LEGEND OF THE MASTER (Henry James) -- signed when he was only 27; he would live another 60 years.
First Edition of Meredith's last three-decker novel, which consisted of 1,500 copies -- published, in fact, in the final year of the three-volume format, as the lending libraries had finally lost their decades-long control over the publishing of English fiction. The next year would see Meredith's last multi-volume novel, THE AMAZING MARRIAGE in two volumes, which would carry through with the same topic as LORD ORMONT -- that a woman should be free to leave a marriage in which her husband does not consider her to be an equal partner. This set is in close-to-fine condition -- very light rubbing on some edges, but essentially no other wear nor soil. The spine gilt is intact but we have never seen a copy of this title with what we could call gleaming gilt. Collie XIV; Sadleir 1699; Wolff 4740. Provenance: each front free endpaper bears the penciled signature "Simon Nowell-Smith | July 1936" -- the bibliophile and author of such books as EDWARDIAN ENGLAND and THE HOUSE OF CASSELL and THE LEGEND OF THE MASTER (Henry James) -- signed when he was only 27; he would live another 60 years.
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- Bookseller
- Sumner & Stillman (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14893
- Title
- LORD ORMONT AND HIS AMINTA: A Novel. In Three Volumes
- Author
- Meredith, George
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1894
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction (19th Century); Three-Decker Novels;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Sumner & Stillman
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Yarmouth, Maine
About Sumner & Stillman
Founded in 1980, Sumner & Stillman is a small family business providing personal service in the buying and selling of literary first editions of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) for over 30 years.
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