Author: Wilkie Collins
Title: The Moonstone: A Romance
Description: London, Chatto & Windus, 1876. Leather. A new edition of this important detective novel from English novelist Wilkie Collins, with illustrations. New edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. Collated complete. An epistolary novel and an early example of the modern detective novel which established many of the ground rules of the modern genre and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre. Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday from her uncle, a corrupt British army officer who served in India. The diamond is of great religious significance and extremely valuable, and three Hindu priests have dedicated their lives to recovering it. Written by William Wilkie Collins, an English novelist and playwright. Illustrated by George du Maurier, a Franco-British cartoonist and writer known for work in Punch, and Francis Arthur Fraser, a prolific Scottish illustrator known for his work on the novels of Charles Dickens and Mark Twain. Bound in half morocco with marbled boards. Externally, sound with rubbing to the extremities and light fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with scattered spotting throughout. Good . Ill.: George du Maurier; F. A. Fraser. Good .

Keywords: Moonstone Romance Collins Romance George du Maurier; F. A. Fraser


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