Harry Coverdale's Courtship and All That Came of It

474pp plus publisher's catalogue of works bound in at rear. In strong buckram cloth binding with rules and blind embossed decorations and illustrations, gilded titles and illustration to spine. 8vo. Rubbed at corners and along spine edges, where there is a little fraying. Internally pages a little aged with occasional spotting but sound and strong. Gutter crack between front endpapers. 1864 reprint following 1st edition of 1855 by the same publisher. A racily told tale by Francis Edward Smedley, a disabled novelist, cousin of the poet Manella Bute Smedley, who was his housekeeper.