Shirley. A Tale. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1875. A New Edition. Pp, 534. A good copy in half calf and marbled boards, with marbled endpapers and edges.

First published in 1849, following the tremendous popular success of ‘Jane Eyre’ the novel is set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars and Luddite revolts of 1811-12.