Charles Kingsley — Poems Volume I, Two Years Ago Volume I, & Yeast: A Problem

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1890-1902. Leather. Three smart volumes from English novelist and poet Charles Kingsley. Three volumes. Later editions. Written by Charles Kingsley, a broad church priest of the Church of England, university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. This set includes: Poems, 1890. Volume one, The Saint's Tragedy only. Two Years Ago, 1901. Volume one only. In the last of his reforming novels, Kingsley describes the descent of cholera upon the little West Country fishing village of Aberalva and attacks the poor sanitary conditions that allowed it to take hold. Yeast: A Problem, 1902. This was Kingsley's first novel, an attack on Roman Catholicism and the Oxford Movement, as well as being an attack on celibacy, bad landlords, and bad sanitation. Bound by J. & E. Bumpus, Oxford Street. In the original half red calf with red cloth boards. Externally, smart with rubbing to the extremities and light fading to the spines. The odd small mark to the boards. Hinges just starting but firm to Yeast. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Bound by J. & E. Bumpus, Oxford Street. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .