First English edition. 332pp. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Bumped spine ends and corners. Yellow top edge. Edges foxing. Free endpaper and first page tanning and foxing. Otherwise, internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has light chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price clipped. 8vo. Powerful and thoroughly adult story, which first appeared in 1874, about the career of an unscrupulous young woman far removed from a Dickens' butter-wouldn't-melt-in-her-mouth heroine. Translated into English for the first time by Charlotte Haldane and with a preface by Alan Pryce-Jones.
