LISTER, Thomas Henry.

£1,000 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Granby. First edition, in the original boards; "this important book is extremely rare in original state" (Sadleir)."Lister was a refined and accomplished man who moved in aristocratic circles. In 1826 he published Granby, a novel set in English high society. It tells the story of its eponymous young hero's love for Miss Jermyn, whose parents disapprove of the relationship. But when Granby turns out to be the heir of Lord Malton, all is well. It is often regarded as the first full example of the 'fashionable' or 'silver-fork' novel, a genre also associated with Theodore Hook, Disraeli, Bulwer-Lytton, Mrs Gore, and Lady Blessington, among others. It was well received, with Sydney Smith in the Edinburgh Review of February 1826 going so far as to praise it as 'a very easy and natural picture of manners, as they really exist among the upper classes' (p. 396)" (ODNB).With the book label of Stowe Library to each volume, and the ownership signature to each front cover of "Lady Chandos" (probably Mary, née Campbell (d.1862), Marchioness of Chandos (1825-39), and subsequently Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos.

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