Reade, Charles | The Cloister and the Hearth, the first edition of this historical novel

Property from an Important American Collection

Reade, Charles

The Cloister and the Hearth. London: Trubner & Co., 1861

8vo. Text blocks cocked. Publisher's green cloth, spines gilt; corners bumped, occasional spotting to covers. Collector's quarter morocco clamshell box.

The first edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's favorite novel.

"I do not know where I can find a book in which the highest qualities of head and of heart go together as they do in this one." (Conan Doyle, 1898)

This historical novel, set in Europe in the fifteenth century, began as a serial in Once a Week magazine. Due to its success, Reade revised it into a novel, publishing it in 1861.

REFERENCES:

Sadleir 1999; Parrish 206