1890 The Witch's Head

Description

Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First thus. The second novel from the author, written just prior to King Solomon's Mines. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen plates. Collated complete. When a discovery of a box containing a well-preserved Saxon woman's head is made in a cemetery collapsing into the sea, the finders deem her to have been a witch. From this point on, things start to go wrong for those surrounding the discovery. Written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. Illustrated by Charles Kerr, a British artist and illustrator.