THE CZAR: A TALE OF THE TIME OF THE FIRST NAPOLEON

Anon (Deborah Alcock)

Published by T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row, London, 1884

About this Item

Irish, Kilkenny-born author, best-known for her novel 'The Spanish Brothers'. ***Second edition, 1884. (First edition was published in 1882). ***Illustrated with a black and white steel engraved frontispiece showing 'Timely Aid' to illustrate page 30 and a title-piece showing 'Sweet Counsel to a mournful heart' to illustrate page 442. ***Very good in blue cloth-covered boards with bevelled edges, black and blind raised titles on gilt title compartment, red and black rules and red and black outlined design to spine, gilt and black titles and red and black design and rules to front board and blind ornate decorative rules to rear board. Boards very slightly marked. Edges slightly rubbed. Corners very slightly creased. Sepia floral-decorated front and rear front pastedowns and endpapers. Boards slightly rubbed and marked. Corners of boards slightly bumped. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Head and tail of spine rubbed. Corners of boards rubbed. A couple of fox marks to prelims. No foxing to interior pages. No foxing to frontispiece or title-piece. No inscriptions. Spine tight. Pages and two front of book illustrations clean. ***208mm x 146mm. vi-prelim pages plus 446 pages. ***'A Sleeping Village: "Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay." Tennyson. The nineteenth century was still very young; its eventful day - that day whose sunset we have yet to see - had but lately dawned upon the world. There were regions, even in Europe, where, for any illumination brought them by the age, the hand of time might have been put back centuries. In the vast monotonous plain around Moscow the ancient, - Moscow the holy, with her "forty times forty churches," Russian serfs tilled the cornfields of their lords, trembled beneath the knout and the plitt, ate their kasha and drank their kvass, and enjoyed the simple luxuries of their stoves and their vapour-baths, just as their fathers and fathers' fathers had done for generations.' (Quote from first page of Chapter I). ***Historical novel set during the French invasion of Russia. An early edition of Deborah Alcock's successful historical romance novel: 'The Czar: A Tale of the First Napoleon' in complete, collectable condition. An attractive Victorian pictorial binding, of interest to collectors of Victorian literature and Victorian and Irish women writers. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 3161

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE CZAR: A TALE OF THE TIME OF THE FIRST ...

Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row, London

Publication Date: 1884

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued

Edition: Second Edition