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[Craik (Dinah)] Romantic Tales
£125
London, Smith, Elder, and Co., 1866.
‘A New Edition’. 8vo. Original orange cloth lettered & ruled in black.
A gathering together of stories of an imaginative or fantastical character, drawing on legend, classical antiquity and historical romance, distinct in tone from the domestic realism for which Craik was primarily celebrated. Craik was one of the most widely read Victorian novelists of her day, best known for John Halifax, Gentleman (1856).
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Bookseller’s small blind-stamp to preliminary leaf; cloth rather rubbed and bumped, spine dulled.
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