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A Family Without a Name
57683London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1891 1890. Historical Fiction FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.viii; 172; 134 34. Publisher's catalogue dated October 1890. With 79 of the 80 wood engraved plates by Tiret-Bognet including a frontispiece. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles and black white and orange decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt; light orange-coated endpapers. Lacking plate facing p.86. Two further plates tipped back in which are rubbed and chipped to edges. Tobacco-scented with a few very minor marks to leaves. A little shaken with a few gatherings proud. Light spotting to endpapers and facing leaves. Moderate rubbing and a little bumping to cloth; sunned to spine. Very good. A novel set during the Lower Canada i.e. Quebec Rebellion of 1837 and 1838. First published in French in 1889 and first translated into English in America later the same year. Extremely rare thus. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1891 [1890] unknown
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