EARL OF BEACONSFIELD - The Young Duke. Count Alarcos. A Tragedy.

London England, Longmans, Green and Co, 1919. New Impression, Binding: Cloth, Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Hadrback Hardback. Slight foxing to end inside covers. Couple of small marks to back cloth. Sunned spine to cloth. red cloth with gilt lettering. This Work was first published in the year 1837. The reader will be kind enough to recollect that 'The Young Duke' was written 'when George the Fourth 'was King' (1829), nearly a quarter of a century ago, and that, therefore, it is entitled to the indulgence which is the privilege of juvenile productions. Though its pages attempt to pourtray the flleting manners of a somewhat fivolous age, it is hoped that they convey a moral of a deeper and a more permanent character. Young authors are apt to fall into affectation and conceit, and the writer of this work sinned very much in these respects; but the affection of youth should be viewed leniently, and every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. 451 pp.