Eugene Aram: A Tale
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart, M. P.
With a Frontispiece by Hablot K. Browne
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LEATHER
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Publisher: G. Routledge & Company, London
Copyright: 1854
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One of Lytton's sympathetic studies of a murderer executed in 1759. Eugene Aram was a lexicographer & academic who was eventually found guilty of the murder of a friend over property. Lytton used the case as the basis for a story of a romantic figure torn between violence and visionary ideals.
Condition: This book is in good condition. Leather. Half brown leather over marbled boards. Boards are worn along edges and corners. Marbled boards are scuffed. Spine has beautiful hand-tooled dentelles. Five raised bands. Binding square, hinges tight. Original brown endpapers. Frontispiece engraving with tissue guard in great shape. Text block is crisp and clean.
296 pages, 5" x 7.25"
LOC B4 S1
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart, M. P.
With a Frontispiece by Hablot K. Browne
-
LEATHER
-
Publisher: G. Routledge & Company, London
Copyright: 1854
__
One of Lytton's sympathetic studies of a murderer executed in 1759. Eugene Aram was a lexicographer & academic who was eventually found guilty of the murder of a friend over property. Lytton used the case as the basis for a story of a romantic figure torn between violence and visionary ideals.
Condition: This book is in good condition. Leather. Half brown leather over marbled boards. Boards are worn along edges and corners. Marbled boards are scuffed. Spine has beautiful hand-tooled dentelles. Five raised bands. Binding square, hinges tight. Original brown endpapers. Frontispiece engraving with tissue guard in great shape. Text block is crisp and clean.
296 pages, 5" x 7.25"
LOC B4 S1