Author: Dasent, George Webbe.
Title: ANNALS OF AN EVENTFUL LIFE.
Description: Hurst and Blackett, 1870. 4th/3rd and 2nd Eds., Revised. 3 vols. Sm. 8vo. Some light browning, marbled e.ps., contemporary green half calf with cloth boards, extremities scuffed in part, gilt motifs and gilt lettering to faded spines rubbed to head and tail, t.e.g. ¶ Sir George Webbe Dasent (1817–1896), Scandinavian scholar. ‘... He devoted his leisure between 1870 and 1875 to writing lively semi-autobiographical novels, including the successful [above title], which lamented the passing of the West Indian planter ...’

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