1883 Facing Death or, The Hero of the Vaughan Pit: A Tale of the Coal Mines

Description

Early Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

A scarce early edition.

A very small number of printings of the first edition (first and second state) that had been quickly requested to be returned by Blackie in exchange for the later issue and thus very scarce. 

This present edition was produced to amend the revised list of illustrations to include the two additional plates (p.58 and p. 237). Although presented as a new edition (indeed it even states “Second Edition” to the title page which is unusual for Blackie) the text itself bears no differences from the first state and was used simply as a scheme to get out of inconsistencies resulting from the mentioned error. (Newbolt 10.4). 

In the publisher's decorative cloth binding. 

Now viewed as one of the author's more controversial plot points, Henty comes down against strikes and has the working class hero of the novel, Jack Simpson, quell a strike among coal miners.

Collated, complete with a frontispiece and seven plates by Gordon Browne.