Ernest Maltravers

Title: Ernest Maltravers. Author: Lord Lytton London: George Routledge and Son. c1880.

Large 12mo. (4.875" x 7.375") Quarter polished green leather with large tips on light green cloth with marbled endpapers. Spine with 5 raised gilt enhanced bands, gilt stamped author/title in 2nd & 4th compartments, and remaining 4 with single rule gilt borders. Top edge gilt. Signed binding: f. & E. Stoneham. Cheapside.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (5 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an English writer and politician. Bulwer-Lytton's works were well known in his time. He coined famous phrases like "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", "dweller on the threshold", "the great unwashed", and the opening phrase (incipit) "It was a dark and stormy night."

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