1896 Le Selve

Description

First Edition, Leather Binding, Signed Binding, Uncommon

The first edition of this uncommon work in a quarter calf binding with cloth boards. Binder's stamp of Birdsall & Son, Northampton, to the front paste down.

Bookplate of the English Army officer and peer Edward George Bootle-Wilbraham, 2nd Earl of Lathom (1864-1910) to the front paste down.

Maria Louise Ramé (1839-1908), known by the pseudonym Ouida, was a successful English novelist. She wrote more than 40 novels, as well as short stories, children's books and essays. In this novella, a Northern European dissident is exiled to an Italian community of thieves and squatters, in which he finds companionship with a local peasant woman.