Pseudonym for Bulwer Lytton Robert (2 results)

Hard Back. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. 284 Pages. Green cloth boards with gilt page edges at the top. Date of publication is not given. Red silk bookmark with only a quarter inch showing. The top of page 31-32 has a corner crease. No other defects noted and pages are flawlessly white. Gold lettering on spine with title, author, publisher Montgomery Ward, and embossed decoration. Illustrated throughout. About 100 American publishers issued one or more editions of Meredith's Lucile beginning in1860. Montgomery Ward & Company offered this title from 1872 into the1940s. Lucile is a verse novel written by Robert Bulwer-Lytton under the pen name Owen Meredith, and published in 1860. The poem is a narrative told in an anapaest meter. It was Meredith's most popular work, achieving wide popularity in the 19th century, despite accusations of plagiarism involving elements of an 1831 George Sand novella, Lavinia.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Illustrated edition. Octavo. 369pp. Frontispiece of Lytton. Illustrated by F. T. Merrill. Engraved by George T. Andrew. Illustrated mustard cloth stamped in red, black and gilt, all edges gilt. Owner's contemporary gift inscription (dated "1887") on blank preliminary page, gutters cracked, spine ends and corners rubbed and chipped, a good only copy. This being the author's most notable story told in verse originally published in 1860.…