Wormwood ( 2 Volumes in 1 )

Leather Bound. Condition: Near Fine. Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, Germany 1891. Copyright Edition. 287 + 280 pages. Brown leather spine, boards have marbled paper. Volumes 2692 + 2693. Nice Firm Clean copy ! From the library of Arthur Brentano, President of Brentanos Bookshops and Publishers from 1915 to 1944. Size: 16mo 5.75 - 6.75'' tall. Copyright Edition for Europe. Tauchnitz was the name of a family of German printers and publishers. In the summer of 1843, Tauchnitz presented one of the earliest copyright proposals, which was initially accepted by G.P.R. James, Bulwer Lytton, and Lady Blessington and later by Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Ainsworth, Samuel Warren and Captain Marryat. They published English language literature for distribution on the European continent outside Great Britain, including initial serial publications of novels by Charles Dickens. Though copyright protection did not exist between nations in the 19th century, Tauchnitz paid the authors for the works they published, and agreed to limit their sales of English-language books to the European continent, as authors like Dickens or Bulwer-Lytton had separate arrangements for publication and sale in Great Britain. Fiction Antique 6076