MUDIE'S CIRCULATING LIBRARY AND THE VICTORIAN NOVEL

by Guinevere L. Griest

A$45 · Offered by Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

Pp. xiv+272, text illustrations, select bibliography, notes, index; demy 8vo; red boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, backstrip faded; free endpapers lightly browned, Readers Union sticker on title page, a little light soiling; David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1970. First U.K. edition. *Charles Edward Mudie opened his Select Library in London in 1842, ushering in an era in English literature dominated by the three decker novel - and by the tastes of the middle class

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