1892 MY NOVEL LORD LYTTON 3 VLS LTHR HAND COLORED ILLS!

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Pisistratus Caxton aka Edward Bulwer Lytton; 1892; Limited Edition; First Edition Thus; Boston, Estes and Lauriat; Leather; Illustrated; 406, 464, 413 Pages; 6"x 9"; Very Rare!!!

Great for any fan the Author or Collector.  Great on a Shelf!!

Limited to only 1,000 Copies, this being # 589; Complete in Three Volumes!!!

Attributes:

Three Beautiful, sleek marble cover designs with gold borders, pretty maroon Morocco Leather Bindings and corners, gold detail to spines with five raised bands, marble end pages, gold tops of pages, three Brilliant hand-colored frontispieces with Four other Wonderful Illustrations to each volume and on japanese vellum paper, and great read; Nice Sizes!!!

Some Contents Included:

COMPRISING MR. CAXTON'S OPINIONS ON THE MATRIMONIAL STATE, WHEREIN MR. CAXTON IS PROFOUNDLY METAPHYSICAL, COURAGE AND PATIENCE, THE ABUSE OF INTELLECT, ON PUBLIC LIFE, ON THE IMPORTANCE OF HATE AS AN AGENT IN CIVILIZED LIFE, WHEREIN THE CAXTON FAMILY REAPPEAR, ETC.!!!

Background:

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC (25 May, 1803–18 January, 1873), was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and the infamous incipit "It was a dark and stormy night."

He was the youngest son of General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon Hall and Wood Dalling, Norfolk and Elizabeth Barbara Lytton, daughter of Richard Warburton Lytton of Knebworth, Hertfordshire. He had two brothers, William Earle Lytton Bulwer (1799–1877) and Henry, afterwards Lord Dalling and Bulwer.

In 1828 he attracted general attention with Pelham, a humorous, intimate study of the dandyism of the age which kept gossips busy in identifying characters with public figures of the time. A highly melodramatic sub-plot is interwoven. By 1833, he had reached the height of his popularity with Godolphin, followed by The Pilgrims of the Rhine (1834), The Last Days of Pompeii (1834), Rienzi: Last of the Tribunes (1835), and Harold: Last of the Saxon Kings (1848). The Last Days of Pompeii was inspired by the painting on the same subject by Russian painter Karl Briullov (Carlo Brullo) which Bulwer-Lytton saw in Milan. He also wrote The Haunted and the Haunters (1857), also known as The House and the Brain, included by Isaac Asimov in his anthology Tales of the Occult and which also appears in the Horror collection The Wordsworth Book Of Horror Stories.

Condition:

Conditions are Good/Very Good.  Some wear to edges/bindings, some chipping to hinge leather, repair near upper front of one, some color added, pages are very good, text blocks are very good, hinges are good/very good.  Overall, for over 115 years old they're in Good/Very Good Condition!!!