1904 The Lamplighter

Description

Colour Plates, Decorative Binding, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

An uncommon illustrated edition of this novel with original colour plates. 

In the original decorative cloth binding.

With a coloured frontispiece, illustrative title page and seven coloured plates. Collated, complete. 

A sentimental novel, and female bildungsroman this was the first novel from American author Maria Susanna Cummins, and was an immediate best-seller, selling 20,000 copies in twenty days.

The narrative follows the story of Gertrude Flint, an orphan rescued at the age of eight by Trueman Flint, a lamplighter, from her abusive guardian, Nan Grant.