T. Love Peacock; Richard Garnett [editor] — Crochet Castle & Nightmare Abbey

London, J. M. Dent & Co. 1891. Cloth. Two smart limited large paper editions of these works from English writer Thomas Love Peacock. Two volumes. Limited to one hundred copies of this large paper edition. With a portrait frontispiece. Written by Thomas Love Peacock, an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. Edited by Richard Garnett, a British scholar, librarian, biographer and poet who was keeper of printed books at British Museum from 1890 to 1899. This set contains: Crotchet Castle, 1891. Peacock assembles a group of eccentrics, each with a single monomaniacal obsession, and derives humour and social satire from their various interactions and conversations. Nightmare Abbey, 1891. Following the fortunes of Christopher Glowry, a morose widower who lives with his only son Scythrop in the isolated family mansion, Nightmare Abbey, in Lincolnshire. The work makes fun of contemporary literary trends. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine and board edges. The odd mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light age toning to the endpapers with a contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .