Man And Wife

Extended Description and Notes

RARE/SCARCE. Used. Good Condition. HARPER & BROTHERS. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1870. MAN AND WIFE, a novel by WILKIE COLLINS, author of "The Moonstone" and "The Woman in White. Brown boards with ornate gold gilt titles on spine. TITLING REMAINS BRIGHT. Large octavo, original cloth, 239 pages [text printed in two columns] (followed by 4 pages of adverts). ILLUSTRATED with a frontispiece portrait and text vignettes. An important, early novel dealing with domestic violence, and marriage laws in Ireland and Scotland. A bright, clean copy. Signed and dated on two front end-papers by former owners Mr. & Mrs. A. B. Wiswall of Newton Lake Falls, Mass. Sept. 1869.

Bookseller

Mary Riversong Books (US)

Bookseller's Inventory #

29WilkieCollinsMan

Title

Man And Wife

Author

Collins, Wilkie

Format/Binding

Hardcover

Book Condition

Used - Good

Jacket Condition

None as issued

Quantity Available

1

Edition

First American Edition

Publisher

Harper & Brothers

Place of Publication

New York

Date Published

1870

Pages

239

Size

6 1/4 X 9 1/2

Weight

0.00 lbs

Keywords

Wilkie Collins, Woman in White, Gothic Novel, Social Science, Marriage, Scotland, Victorian Era

Bookseller catalogs

Anglophilia; Victorian Literature; Harper & Brothers; 19th Century Literature;

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Cloth

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Octavo

Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...

Gilt

The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...

Spine

The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....