Lothair

by Benjamin Disraeli 

First edition, three volumes.  London:  Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD+ condition.

• Three-quarter leather with marbled paper covers are mostly clean.   
• Boards show some spots, rubbing, edgewear.  Corners are sharp.  
• Spines have raised bands, gilt text and ornament and are bright with firm ends.
• Bindings are strong.  
• Pastedowns and feps have some scattered foxing, staining, writing, bookseller sticker, owners' bookplates.  See photos.
• Ex libris The Gray Library, per bookplate at front pastedown, Ex Libris Andrew A. Miller, with bookplate at rear pastedown.  See photos.   
• Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear, a little marginal toning.  Volume II shows scattered foxing especially to early pages.  See photos. 
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have gilt along head. 
• PS2025.0807

982 pages. 4 5/8 x 7 3/8 inches

Very Good Plus set, First Edition in three volumes.  Nicely bound in three-quarter russet leather with coordinating marble boards, with raised bands and gilt text and ornament to the spines.  Gilt along the head.  Bindings are strong, interior is bright.  A little spotting to the end papers, with various bookseller's notations and two owner's bookplates, one inside the front cover and one at the back cover.

Lothair is a late novel by Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) that concerns itself with the unification of Italy and the conflicts between Protestantism and Catholicism, with attractive, noble protagonists.  The novel was hugely successful.  The first edition, here for sale, published by Longmans, Green and Co. in London on 2 May 1870, sold out instantly.  It was followed by some seven more British editions that year, and the first, large, U.S. edition also sold out immediately.  Not everyone in British society thought it proper for a statesman and political figure like Disraeli to enjoy such great success as the author of a novel, but disapproval did not harm the book's sales.

Book plate at front pastedown from The Gray Library, with the motto "Anchor Fast Anchor."

First Edition.  

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