first edition
1824 · London
by Porter, Jane
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. First Edition. Very good in nineteenth-century brown half calf, marbled paper boards, gilt rules, joints rubbed, and hinges just starting.. First edition. A historical romance set in the 17th-century Balkan Peninsula, about the Duke Christian of Luneburg's efforts to free the Bohemians, Croats, and others from domination by the Turks.
"His Majesty George IV was so pleased with [her prior work] that he requested Miss Porter to take for her next hero his great ancestor, Duke Christian of Luneburg. . . she complies, of course, with His Majesty's gracious request. . . The king furnished (truncated)
"His Majesty George IV was so pleased with [her prior work] that he requested Miss Porter to take for her next hero his great ancestor, Duke Christian of Luneburg. . . she complies, of course, with His Majesty's gracious request. . . The king furnished (truncated)