HOWELLS (W.D.): Heroines of Fiction, with Illustrations by H.C. Christy, A.I. Keller, and Others. [in two vols.]. , London and New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1901;

1st ed., pp.vi, 239; vi, 273. Numerous illus. in each vol. Orig. blue-green cloth w. decorative title in gilt and red. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Spine of Vol. 1 crumpled at head. First gathering in Vol.1 slack but not detached. Small signs of insect damage, o/w a good set. The work covers discussion of heroines from the works of Fanny Burney, Maria Edgworth, Jane Austen, Susan Ferrier, Mrs Opie, Mrs Radcliffe, Sir Walter Scott, Bulwer Lytton, Dickens, Hawthorne, Thackeray, the Brontes, Charles Kingsley, Charles Reade, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, William Black, Bret Harte and Mrs Humphry Ward. Nice monogram bookplate. (Book ref. 3312)  £30.00

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