[DAVIDSON, John]. WILLS, C.J.
An Easy-Going Fellow.
Inscribed by Wills’s son on the recto of the half-title-leaf: “Geoffrey Wills.“
The book has a characteristically unconventional Wills/Davidson authorship, whereby Davidson “expanded one of Wills’s St James’s Gazette stories, ‘Mrs. Redmayne’s Complexion’ into a full-length novel in the belief that they already had a publisher for it, and that they would share the profits“. In fact Wills stitched up Davidson (as per usual) by delaying “placing some of the manuscripts with publishers, including An Easy-Going Fellow in which they had half profits.” (Quotations from Sloane). A fine copy, seemingly unread.
