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[Magazine; Riddell (Mrs)]. London Society.
£495
An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for the Hours of Relaxation
London, , 1867.
Volume XII. Large 8vo. Original purple cloth blocked in elaborate gilt to upper cover and spine, and in blind to lower cover.
Vol. XII (July to December) bound with the Christmas number for 1867, containing the first publication of Mrs Riddell’s ‘Hertford O’Donnell’s Warning’.
London Society was a Victorian-era illustrated monthly periodical published between 1862 and 1898 by W. Clowes and Sons in London. It featured miscellaneous articles, short fiction, and serialized novels. Notable contributors included Charlotte Riddell and Florence Marryat.
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Some foxing and oxidising; cloth very good.
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