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Very scarce edition, externally very good with green buckram boards with gilt title to front and spine and blind tooled art nouveau decoration. Internally clean though pages have considerable age toning due to inferior quality of paper used in publishing, some occasional chips to edges of pages but no loss of text.
Basil was Collins second full length novel and received a mixed reception. Collins's literary friends gave good reviews and Dickens wrote 'the story contains admirable writing' and 'I have made Basil's acquaintance with great gratification.' The Athenaeum, however, called Basil 'a tale of criminality, almost revolting from its domestic horrors'
Basil was Collins second full length novel and received a mixed reception. Collins's literary friends gave good reviews and Dickens wrote 'the story contains admirable writing' and 'I have made Basil's acquaintance with great gratification.' The Athenaeum, however, called Basil 'a tale of criminality, almost revolting from its domestic horrors'
Synopsis
Bibliography: pxxv-xxvi. This work was first published in 1852 by Richard Bentley, London, as a three-decker. It was then reset and reprinted in one volume by James Blackwood, London, 1856.
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- Bookseller
- Andrew James Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5583
- Title
- Basil
- Author
- Collins, Wilkie
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Richard Butterworth
- Date Published
- 1901
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- wilkie collins basil hardback
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- Gilt
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