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Synopsis

A problem. fourth edition.

Item Description

8vo. 7.5 x 5.25 inches. xvii + [iii] + 272 pp. Bound in half red morocco over red boards; spine in compartments with raised bands, decorated gilt with gilt titles. Marbled endpapers. Minor wear to extremities, but otherwise a very good copy. Armourial bookplate of N. Mac Eacharn, Galloway House, Wigtownshire. The first novel of Charles Kingsley (1819-75), a Christian Socialist, which was published in magazine parts from 1848 and first appeared in book form in 1851. It is a radical condemnation of the the English class system and the poverty of the rural shires, which also attacks Roman Catholicism and the Oxford Movement. An attractively bound copy.