T. Love Peacock; Richard Garnett [editor] — Crochet Castle

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1893. Cloth. A smart second edition of this humorous novel from English writer Thomas Love Peacock. Second edition. Scarce. The author collects a group of eccentrics, each with a single monomaniacal obsession, to derive humour and social satire from their various interactions and conversations in a singular setting. Written by Thomas Love Peacock, an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company who was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Richard Garnett, an English scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light wear and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot. Age toning to the endpapers with a contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .