THE NEW TIMON. A Romance of London. Second American, from the Third London Edition. by Lytton, Baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton - 1847

Carey and Hart, Philadelphia:, 1847 pp. 208. 16mo. 180mm. Original publisher's full red cloth binding decorated in blind and gilt. Spine decorated and lettered similarly in gilt. Boards mildly soiled near edges. Spine dirtied and rubbed with wear near the head and base. Corners bumped. Font gutter cracking slightly. Contents lightly foxed. Hardbound. Very Good. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. He coined the phrases 'the great unwashed', 'pursuit of the almighty dollar', 'the pen is mightier than the sword', 'dweller on the threshold', and the well-known and much-parodied opening line 'It was a dark and stormy night'. After his death, Bulwer-Lytton suffered a tremendous decline in reputation and today is best known for the 'dark and stormy night' line and the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, to determine the opening sentence of the worst of all possible novels.**PRICE JUST REDUCED! NW51. Hardcover. Very Good.