MICHAEL SADLEIR. — Excursions in Victorian Bibliography.

Chaundy & Cox, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. vii, 240pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Errata slip tipped before the dedication page, as required. Cloth quite lightly dust soiled, and a little rubbed at the extremities. Free endpapers lightly toned. A good bright copy. No dust wrapper. A pioneering bibliographical study of the works of Anthony Trollope, Frederick Marryat, Benjamin Disralei, Wilkie Collins, Charles Reade, G. J. Whyte-Melville, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, and Herman Melville, with most sections preceded by an essay about the subject (Charles Read's entry is preceded only by a short note, and Elizabeth Gaskell entry is not introduced). The author's second book, and clearly a precursor to his 1937 Cambridge University lecture on Bibliographical Aspects of the Victorian Novel (Sadleir was later President of the Bibliographical Society. His remarkable collection of Victorian fiction is now held at the UCLA Department of Special Collections, and his collection of Gothic fiction is housed at the University of Virginia)., Good, No Jacket