Author: GUNSON.
Title: James Grant (1822-1887) : An Essay on the Historical Romance, the Popular Novel of a Hundred Years Ago.
Description: Original Manuscript; Cr. 4to; pp. [iii], 63, 7 (references), 7 (bibliography); biographical note, bound in red cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, very good copy. The Author; no date. Grant was a prolific author writing some 90 books, including many yellow-backs. Many of his 56 novels are about important characters and events in Scottish history. His first novel and possible his best "The Romance of War" appeared in 1845.

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