(WEST, Jane) The Refusal. By the author of "Tale of the Times", "Infidel Father", &c. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme. 1810
Half titles; one or two leaves with tiny holes from paper flaws. Contemp. full speckled calf, spines ruled & with devices in gilt, black leather labels; leading hinge sl. weak vol. I, small neat repairs.
¶Not in Sadleir or Wolff. A humorous novel, supposedly by the recently demised 'inimitable author', Mrs. Prudentia Homespun; 'her unrivalled talents and unimpeached celebrity render eulogium impertinent'. (Editor's Preface.) The novel involves a succession of amorous entanglements, the humour often at the expense of pompous members of the minor aristocracy.
Stock #46905
£380
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