1866, ISBN: c75cb1467a376bf450d91f3f4cdad391

London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1866. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". Not Stated. An excellent copy of an early edition of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's very scarce debut novel. An exemplary wo… mais…

London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1866. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". Not Stated. An excellent copy of an early edition of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's very scarce debut novel. An exemplary work of sensation fiction. A very scarce edition of Victorian-era novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon's debut novel, sometimes hailed as the 'first British detective novel'.Initially published in 1860 under the title 'Three Times Dead; or, The Secret of the Heath', and first published under this title in 1861. The work was later serialized in the Halfpenny Journal from August 1864 to February 1865. This 1866 edition was 'carefully revised, and in part re-written' by Braddon.Illustrated with a lithographic frontispiece and title page.With four pages of advertisements at the rear.Braddon's novel concerns an orphans scheming to acquire an aristocratic fortune, and the efforts of his friends to prove his innocence in the murder of his uncle. The work contains many themes of the popular sensation novel of the period, including violence, bigamy, and the lunatic asylum.Very scarce in all nineteenth century editions. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with minor loss to cloth at back strip head. Discolouration to back strip. Internally, generally firmly bound, with two gatherings working loose. Pages clean and bright. Very Good, Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1866, 3<