1848 The Wilmot Family: or "They That Deal Truly are his Delight"

Description

Early Edition, Very Scarce

In paper-covered boards with handwritten title to front cover and to spine.

Third thousand. Published the same year as the first edition. Dated using Jisc from similar copies held at Trinity College Dublin Library.

Written by Mrs Drummond, author of 'Lucy Seymour' and 'Louisa Moreton'.

This work of fiction follows the lives of the Wilmot family, with disasters, parties and 'unwelcome news'.

With a hand coloured illustration to the title page and a black-and-white frontispiece.

With an ink inscription of Zoe M. Miller, from Aunt Marshall, dated 26th December 1860, to the front endpaper.

With a bookplate reading 'Animo et Fide', or 'Courage and Faith' to the front paste down.