Dinah Maria Mulock — John Halifax, Gentleman

London, A. & C. Black, Ltd , 1922. Cloth. A charmingly bound copy of 'John Halifax, Gentleman', complete with eight colour plates. A new edition of this novel set during Britain's Industrial Revolution. In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding. Collated, complete with eight colour plates by Oswald Moser.This popular 19th-century novel centres around a hard working orphan named John Halifax, who is determined to make his way in industrial world through honest hard work.The story was first published in 1856 and is one of the best known works of English novelist and poet Dinah Maria Craik. In the original decorative cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities, heaviest to the spine head and tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with scattered spotting to rear endpapers and first couple leaves. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Oswald Moser. Very Good Indeed .