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Orley Farm
de Anthony Trollope
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine
- Librería
-
Centreville, Virginia, United States
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Hardcover condition: Fine. 2 volumes. With illustrations by J. E. Millais. Beautifully rebound by Bayntun bindery in Bath, England in 3/4 leather with marbled boards and marbled end papers. Five raised bands on spine with gilt on spine and gilt borders on boards. Gilt text block edges. Light rubbing to spine hinge. Internally very clean with some light foxing to to title page and end papers. Mixed set. Volume I is second issue and Volume 2 is first issue. Volume 1 is second issue as the plate faces p. 72 and not p. 73. and this plate is not given a page number on the list of illustrations. Volume 2 is the first issue, as the plates facing pages 305 and 314 are both titled 'Farewell',
Sinopsis
When Joseph Mason of Groby Park, Yorkshire, died, he left his estate to his family. A codicil to his will, however, left Orley Farm (near London) to his much younger second wife and infant son. The will and the codicil were in her handwriting, and there were three witnesses, one of whom was no longer alive. A bitterly fought court case confirmed the codicil. Twenty years pass. Lady Mason lives at Orley farm with her adult son, Lucius. Samuel Dockwrath, a tenant, is asked to leave by Lucius, who wants to try new intensive farming methods. Aggrieved, and knowing of the original case (John Kenneby, one of the codicil witnesses, had been an unsuccessful suitor of his wife Miriam Usbech), Dockwrath investigates and finds a second deed signed by the same witnesses on the same date, though they can remember signing only one. He travels to Groby Park in Yorkshire, where Joseph Mason the younger lives with his comically parsimonious wife, and persuades Mason to have Lady Mason prosecuted for forgery. The prosecution fails, but Lady Mason later confesses privately that she committed the forgery, and is prompted by conscience to give up the estate. There are various subplots. The main one deals with a slowly unfolding romance between Felix Graham (a young and relatively poor barrister without family) and Madeline Staveley, daughter of Judge Stavely of Noningsby. Graham has a long-standing engagement to the penniless Mary Snow, whom he supports and educates while she is being “moulded” to be his wife. Between the Staveleys at Alston and Orley Farm at Hamworth lies the Cleve, where Sir Peregrine Orme lives with his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Orme, and grandson, Peregrine. Sir Peregrine falls in love with Lady Mason and is briefly engaged to her, but she calls off the match when she realises the seriousness of the court case. Meanwhile, Mr. Furnival, another barrister, befriends Lady Mason, arousing the jealousy of his wife. His daughter, Sophia, has a brief relationship with Augustus Stavely and a brief engagement to Lucius Mason. Eventually Furnival and his wife are reconciled, and Sophia's engagement is dropped. Sophia is portrayed as an intelligent woman who writes comically skillful letters.
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Detalles
- Librería
- EGR books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 3171
- Título
- Orley Farm
- Autor
- Anthony Trollope
- Ilustrador
- J. E. Millais
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Bayntun bindery
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Chapman and Hall
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1862
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Bayntun bindery
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fine Binding; Multi-volume Sets;
- Atención
- Puede que se trate de un conjunto de varios volúmenes y requiera de gastos de envío adicionales.
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