OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]

Friendship.

"The whole party passed into the loggia, and thence into the first great apartment opening out from it where some twenty other people, English and American residents of Rome, had been gathered ... and were taking tea, eating grapes, and looking at picture

A Story. A New Edition. 8vo, viii, [2], 419pp, 32pp adverts dated February 1892, with ads on endpapers. ‘Yellowback’, original printed yellow paper covered boards, ship vignette to spine, Pears Soap advert to rear board. London, Chatto & Windus, 1891.

£125.00

Originally published 1878, Friendship is set amidst the society of the Britons and Americans living abroad in Italy, a world she knew well, having moved permanently to Florence with her mother in 1874.

Head and tail of spine chipped, corners rubbed, upper board scratched in places, a few pages with scattered foxing. Still a reasonably bright copy.

Stock No.
250332