Wyatt (Frank) and C.H. Ross. The Earth Girl:
£750
A Weird Legend
London, W.J. Sinkins, 1893.
First edition. Inscribed by C.H. Ross. 8vo. Floral endpapers. Original green cloth stamped in red.
A very good example of this rare first edition, a weird, Hugoesque tale about a wild child called Terra who is unleashed from the bowels of the earth to wreak havoc on the fortunes of Lord Netherdale and his family with her wicked & wanton ways. Inspired by the story of Mademoiselle Leblanc, the mysterious savage of Soigny, near Chalons, who died in Paris in 1780, it is probable that this work is also leveraging the pervading fin-de-siècle anxiety about the emerging ‘new woman’.
This copy is inscribed by one of the authors, C.H. Ross, on the half-title, ‘Miss Emily Burgess, with Charles Ross’s kind regards, Feb 19th 1905.’
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Mild toning and dust-soiling to text-block; covers slightly marked and bumped, but overall a very good copy.
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