PEACOCK, THOMAS LOVE — Headlong Hall -and- Nightmare Abbey (Everyman's Library #327)

London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1965. Hardcover. A 1965 reprint of the 1910 issuance. A pair of shorter novels by Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866). Per the jacket flap, these two were among the author's earlier works, and ".combine in a characteristic way the satire and idyllic beauty that is [the author's] special contribution to the nineteenth-century novel." With an introduction by P. M. Yarker. An entry in Everyman's Library Fiction series. E.L. no. 327. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full brown cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling and interlocked "EL" at tail of spine; orange topstain. In green dust jacket with drawing by Dodie Masterman to front panel. --- An about-Fine copy: clean, tightly-bound, bright and lacking apparent damages. Jacket also in excellent shape, though with mild rubbing & a small bruised area to front panel; otherwise bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector. ; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xvi, 256 pages. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .