LE FANU (Sheridan).

All in the Dark.

First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. vi, 299, [1, blank]; iv, 290 pp. Library binding of modern red cloth, gilt lettering to spines on black morocco labels. London, Bentley, 1866.

£750.00

Rare in commerce, last sold at auction in 1962.

All in the Dark is a satire on the Victorian bourgeois obsession with spiritualism which was first serialised in the Dublin University Magazine. It did not very popular, it being a departure from his usual style, he would later write: “I am half sorry I wrote “All in the Dark” with my own name to it”.

Ex-library copy, with de-accession stamps to title pages of both volumes from Birmingham Library.

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240993