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[Miss Rhodes]
Ralph Redfern. A Novel. By the Author of “The White Rose of Chayleigh,” Etc.
Publisher: Saunders, Otley and Co, London;
Date of Publication: 1868
Stock Code: 6649
FIRST EDITION. Three vols. Small octavo: pp. [1] title, iv Contents, 295, [1] catalogue; [1] title, iv Contents, 292; [1] title, iv Contents, 274. Lacking half-titles. Black half calf with gilt titles and ruling to spine and marbled paper-covered boards; all edges sprinkled red. Bindings lightly scuffed with a little wear and bruising to edge. Vol I split at inner hinge but very firmly holding. Small tea(?)-stains to pp 1-4 Vol I and single leaf corner creased; scattered light foxing mainly to prelims and endpapers; no annotation or inscriptions. From the library of Ballyarnett House, Derry, a late nineteenth century Arts & Crafts country house, with the address in gilt at tail of spine. In Gaye Tuchman’s and Nina E. Fortin’s analysis of male hegemony in 19th c. literature: Edging Women Out; The High-Culture Novel, Ralph Redfern is described as “a very fair novel of the second rank”. Rare, COPAC locates no copies in UK libraries. WORLDCAT locates 3 copies only, two in the US and one in Canada. £380.00