Gaskell, Elizabeth | The Moorland Cottage, her second published work

Property from an Important American Collection

Gaskell, Elizabeth

The Moorland Cottage. By the author of Mary Barton. London: Chapman & Hall, 1850

8vo. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title, engraved in-text illustrations after Birket Foster. Publisher's red fine diaper cloth, blocked in gilt, spine gilt; spine sunned, text block slightly cocked, extremities a little rubbed, very light soiling to covers. Collector's red cloth clamshell box; spine sunned.

The first edition of Gaskell's novella, her second published work.

Published as a Christmas book in December, 1850, the titular character and themes have parallels to those of Eliot's The Mill on the Floss.

REFERENCES:

Sadleir 930; Wolff 2420