xxviii, 38pp. In laminated, illustrated light card covers. 8vo. A little gentle edge wear to card covers else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. This is a fragment of a historical novel, set in the time of the English Civil War, and is the first fiction we have from the hand of the girl who was to become one of the greatest novelists, George Eliot. With Sir Walter Scott as her model, she presents a dauntless young soldier as a hero, and as his antagonist, Henry Marten, long imprisoned in Chepstow Castle. Hard to find title. With an extensive introduction by Juliet McMaster.
