first edition
1866 · London and Cambridge
by Kingsley, Charles
London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1866. Very good in publisher's gilt stamped red morocco cloth, recased with spines laid down, some staining to boards, bookplates in each volume and prior owner stamp/inscription in each, and blind stamp for "W H Smith & Son Library, 186 Strand" being Smith's short-lived lending library but without other indications of library ownership (Sadleir's copy had the same blind stamp).. First edition in book form, in publisher's cloth.
Hereward was an enigmatic Anglo-Saxon landholder from Lincolnshire, who "was elevated by a historical novel written by Charles Kingsley . . . into one of the most romantic (truncated)
Hereward was an enigmatic Anglo-Saxon landholder from Lincolnshire, who "was elevated by a historical novel written by Charles Kingsley . . . into one of the most romantic (truncated)