Melincourt The Works of Thomas Love Peacock Volume Two
1924réf. 581464London / New York: Constable & Company / Gabriel Wells 1924. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The Halliford edition. Volume two only. Edited by H.F.B. Brett-Smith and C.E. Jones. 456pp. Plum cloth with gilt-stamped black spine label. Spine ends slightly bumped boards with light wear very near fine in a lightly worn near fine dust jacket with small tears at the rear spine fold and modest toning. Limited to 675 copies. Complete novel in one volume; reprinted verbatim from the 1817 three-volume first edition save for a few corrections. A satire of a "Sir Oran Haut-ton" a civilized and fashionable orangoutang elected as a member of parliament for the rotten borough of Onevote. An attractive copy. Constable & Company / Gabriel Wells hardcover books
