Coningsby or The New Generation
New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1866. Hardcover. "New Edition." ix, [1], 477 p.; 19 cm. Contemporary half calf with six spine compartments between raised bands; red and black leather labels in second and third compartments with gilt-tooled author and title; gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Marbled paper over boards. All page edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Small label on back fixed endpaper of Henry Miller, bookseller and binder, 52 Nassau St., N.Y. No date of publication. The publisher became George Routledge and Sons in 1865 and moved to the address in the imprint, 416 Broome St., in 1866. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), although best remembered today as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1868 and from 1874 to 1880, was also a novelist. Coningsby, first published in 1844, attacked the evils of the Whig Reform Bill of 1832. In Very Good Condition: cover is rubbed; clean and tight. Very Good. Item #008089
Price: $18.00