1895 Joan Haste

Description

Early Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

The second edition of this work, published in 1895. 

With tissue-guarded frontispiece and nineteen pictorial monochrome plates illustrated by the Kent-born British artist F.S. Wilson. Collated complete.

There is twenty-four pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear of the book. 

Written by H. Rider Haggard, this work is a dramatic novel which takes place predominantly in London and tells the story of a fated love affair between members of different social classes. Sir Henry Rider Haggard was a British writer specialising in romantic adventure novels often set in exotic settings, predominantly Africa, and is considered the father of the 'lost world' literary genre.