MARY AUGUSTA WARD (writing as 'Mrs Humphry Ward'). — Lady Rose's Daughter. A novel.

Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1st Edition, First edition. Crown 8vo. 454pp + [vi] publisher's advertisements. Red cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board. With a tissue-protected frontispiece illustration, and five captioned plates of drawings by Howard Chandler Christy. Some bruising to the backstrip ends and corner tips, and a little marking to the cloth at the upper board. The front free endpaper and final advertisement leaf lightly toned, and with just a trace of tenderness to the rear hinge. A very good copy of the author's second massive success (apparently the best-selling novel in the US in 1903)., Very Good