Idalia

£150 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

“It is a story of love and hatred, of affection and jealousy, of intrigue and devotion…” (Albany Evening Journal, contemporary review). “If life so beloved a thing, that we must be too great cowards to chance its loss when another is in extremity, and needs us?” (p.72). A mysterious woman and her wolfhound save a man left for dead in the Carpathian woods. Set amidst the backdrop of the Italian War of Independence, Idalia, the protagonist, is a rebellious ingénue heroine sympathetic to the cause. Missing rear free endpaper. Hinges cracking, webbing visible, otherwise a very bright copy.

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