George Meredith — The Amazing Marriage

London, Archibald Constable and Co. 1895. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of this novel by George Meredith complete in two volumes. George Meredith was a popular Victorian novelist and poet, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. This is a first edition of his novel The Amazing Marriage, complete in two volumes. The last novel to be published in his lifetime, the story is concerned with modern questions of psychology and gender, looking at a wife free to leave a husband who does not see her as an equal. With half titles. In the original publisher's uniform full cloth binding. Externally smart with minor shelf wear, bumped to head and tail of spine. Back strip and boards are darkened, lightly marked. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Occasional leaf unopened. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .