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LYTTON, Lord.

[Works of Lord Lytton.]

A SUPERB EMBOSSED BINDING OF A BAUDRY PUBLICATION
Paris: Baudry's Foreign Library,1832-37.
11 vols., 8vo (8.5 x 5.5 inches). Full navy calf, with very pretty gilt tooling to spine and gilt border framing superb blind embossed designs to both boards, dentelles and all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Parisian bookseller's ticket. An exceptional set.
A fabulous embossed binding, a style that is very rarely found in an entire set. A collection of Lytton Bulwer's works published by Baudry, the most famous overseas publisher of English langugage titles of the day.
The collection includes many of Lytton Bulwer's best known works, such as his first successful novel Pelham; The Last Days of Pompeii, which instantly achieved classic status and remained a bestseller throughout the nineteenth century; his hugely popular historical novel Rienzi, Last of the Tribunes; and England and the English, his most original work of non-fiction.
"Very few of Bulwer's contemporaries were as prolific, and none was as successful in so many genres. During his lifetime he was outsold only by Dickens, and only Dickens was more widely translated... Bulwer's great gift was to anticipate and define contemporary taste. With his ornately rhetorical style and lofty moralizing manner he was pre-eminently a writer for his own time..." (DNB).
£1900.00
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