Charles Kingsley — Alton Lock Tailor and Poet; Westward Ho!: Yeast, a Problem

London, Macmillan and Co. 1889-1890. Cloth. Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke, Westward Ho, and Yeast are bound in one attractive volume. Three novels by Charles Kingsley bound together in one volume. Whilst Alton Locke is a 1890 edition, Westward Ho and Yeast were both published in 1889. The first novel in the volume demonstrates Kingsley's sympathy for the chartist movement, that erupted between 1838 and 1857. The second novel was based on the experiences of privateer Amyas Preston who sets sail with Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh to the New World. The final novel in the volume, Yeast, demonstrates the influence of the philosopher Thomas Carlyle as Kingsley attacks onRoman Catholicism and the Oxford Movement. Kingsley was a priest, university professor, social reformer, novelist, historian, and poet, particularly associated with Christian socialism and labour cooperatives. Kingsley was also a friend and correspondent of Charles Darwin. With a booksellers sticker to the rear pastedown from 'Ye Palace Boke Shoppe', near Buckingham gate, London. In a contemporary blue cloth binding. Externally, rather smart. Lightly rubbed to the boards and the spine. The spine is a little discoloured and a lightly bumped to the head and the tail. Internally, firmly bound. Aside from some light offsetting to the endpapers, pages are bright and clean throughout. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .