Excursions in Victorian Bibliography

by Michael Sadleir

Note—This is a first edition of The Grey Woman.

1863

SYLVIA'S LOVERS. By Mrs. Gaskell, author of The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Mary Barton, Ruth, North and South etc. (Quotation from Tennyson.) London: Smith, Elder and Co., 65 Cornhill. MDCCCLXIII. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅝).

Vol. I. pp. (viii) + 310 + (2).

Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 294. No half-title.

Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 284 + (4). No half-title. Advertisement of The Life of Charlotte Brontë occupies pp. (285) to (288).

Magenta cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Greenish-buff end-papers.

Note—This book was published in March, 1863.

1863

A DARK NIGHT'S WORK. By Mrs. Gaskell, author of Sylvia's Lovers, Life of Charlotte Brontë, Mary Barton, Ruth etc. etc. London: Smith Elder and Co., 65 Cornhill. MDCCCLXIII. 1 vol. Slim Cr. 8vo (4½ × 7⅝). Pp. (iv) + 299 + (1). Brown cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Cream end-papers.