Anthologie

1863 · 119333 — London: Published at the Leisure Hour Office: The Religious Tract Society 1863. Octavo pp. 1-7 8-288 five illustrations original pebbled gray cloth spine titled and ruled in gold. First edition Perhaps a later printing circa 1880s of this collection of didactic adventure fiction probably intended for young readers. These stories were probably first published THE LEISURE HOUR an illustrated penny-weekly paper which featured moralistic self-improving serial novels most of them published anonymously. Includes "Tale of a Detective" pp. 102-131 a crime story set in 1845. All the stories are presented anonymously but "A Race for Life" is credited to the author of "Danesbury House" and "A Life Secret" i.e. "A Life's Secret" both works written by Ellen Price Wood Mrs. Henry Wood. A popular book reprinted many times into the early twentieth century. Thirteen stories in all. "The Power of Music" tells two stories one about Bach another about Gluck. Hubin 1994 p. 24. A tight clean very good copy. #119333 Published at the Leisure Hour Office: The Religious Tract Society unknown books