Lot 36
  • 36

Collins, Wilkie

Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Description

  • Collins, Wilkie
  • The Evil Genius. A Domestic Story. London: Chatto & Windus, 1886
  • paper
8vo (189 x 120mm.), 3 volumes, first edition, publisher’s pictorial binding, spines lettered in gilt, floral endpapers, modern folding box, occasional slight spotting, hinges weak in places, spines bumped at head and foot

Provenance

Morris L. Parrish, bookplate.

Literature

Parrish, pp.119ff; Woolf 1350

Condition

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Catalogue Note

From the collection of Morris L. Parrish. Written simultaneously as a book and as a play, The Evil Genius addresses some of the most important social issues of its day: divorce, child custody and the rights of women.