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Peacock, Thomas Love.
Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey.
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., London;
Date of Publication: 1896
Stock Code: 12481
Octavo, pp., xxiv, 244, paginated to include plates. Monochrome frontispiece with tissue guard, 36 further plates and 3 in-text illustrations. Publisher’s royal blue cloth with gilt titles and stylised peacock heavily blocked in gilt to spine and upper board; all edges gilt with yellow peacock pictorial endpapers. Previous owner’s name written neatly to front paste-down and light foxing to tissue guard, otherwise a very clean & neat copy with only minor rubbing to spine tips; near fine condition. Two novellas which poke fun at contemporary attitudes and desires. Headlong Hall was Peacock’s first novel which pokes fun at his now-unknown contemporaries. Nightmare Abbey is a gothic satire, which includes characters based on Byron and Coleridge. A handsome peacock binding which is illustrated throughout by H. R. Miller, with an Introduction by George Saintsbury. £185.00