ELLIS, Edwin J.

The Man of Seven Offers.

Frontispiece and four (apparently of five) plates. First edition. 8vo., original black cloth. London: Ward & Downey, Limited, n.d, 1895.

£60.00

In this comic novel, the offers are marriage proposals. An atmospherically distressed copy, evoking a picture of working class literacy, with the early ownership inscription of Nehemiah Sage of Penrhiwceiber in the Rhondda Valley in South Wales: Nehemiah was surely a coal miner for every page is thumbed and soiled. Binding worn and soiled, hinge starting. WorldCat finds only two copies outside the British copyright receipt libraries.

Stock No.
236932