Sir Mortimer : a novel

Johnston, Mary, 1870-1936. ; Yohn, F. C. (Fredrick Coffay), 1875-1933

Published by New York ; London : Harper and Brothers, 1904, 1903, 1904

[8], 349, [3] p. (first 2 p. and last 2 p. blank), [9] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 21 cm. ; LCCN: 04-6876 ; LC: PZ3.J646; PS2142; Dewey: 813.52 ; OCLC: 1072436 ; tipped-in plates ; Verso of title page.: Published March, 1904 ; Frontispiece and mounted plates facing p. 16, 52, 138, 174, 190, 244, 260 and 284, signed by F.C. Yohn ; Mary Johnston was a best-selling American novelist and women's rights advocate ; A British reviewer panned the book "vigourously" : "The central idea of the book is certainly ingenious; but Miss Johnston does not write with sufficient vigour to reconstruct the wild adventure of the days of Drake and the Spanish Main. The difficulty of language, again, has not been very happily surmounted, for, although the reader is not shocked by nineteenth-century language being uttered by sixteenth-century characters, a good deal of force has been sacrificed to obtain the desired archaic effect. This sacrifice seriously impairs the verisimilitude of the whole, for the dominating note of the Elizabethan age is vigour, and no picture of that age can be convincing unless this vigour is reproduced. Miss Johnston strikes a plaintive and pathetic note in her novel, and ignores that abounding virility and exuberance of vitality which marked the age of which she writes."--The Spectator, 11 June 1904 ; Other readers liked the book, so which is it? ; knocked ; G. Seller Inventory # 006733

Bibliographic Details

Title: Sir Mortimer : a novel
Publisher: New York ; London : Harper and Brothers, 1904, 1903
Publication Date: 1904
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition.
Book Type: Book