Author:
Charles Reade (1814-1884), Victorian novelist and playwright [ambidexterity]
Publication details:
Dated in type 2 April 1878, from 19 Albert Gate, Knightsbridge.
Excessively scarce, with no copy listed on either WorldCat or JISC LHD, and absent from Parrish (1940). Not only a desideratum of a leading Victorian author (at his height only equalled in financial success by Dickens, George Eliot and Wilkie Collins), but also a fine example of eccentric Victorian zeal pushed almost to the point of insanity. The earnestness of the present item suggests that it is satirical in intent, but this is not the case.
