• Harper's Select Novels Vol. 3 (Harper & Brothers, 1842) - spine
  • Harper's Select Novels Vol. 3 (Harper & Brothers, 1842) - rear board
  • Harper's Select Novels Vol. 3 (Harper & Brothers, 1842) - front board
  • Harper's Select Novels Vol. 3 (Harper & Brothers, 1842) - bottom edge view
  • Harper's Select Novels Vol. 3 (Harper & Brothers, 1842) - inside covers with taped hinges
  • Harper's Select Novels Vol. 3 (Harper & Brothers, 1842) - The Czarina, chapter one
  • Harper's Select Novels Vol. 3 (Harper & Brothers, 1842) - Rienzi dedication page
  • Harper's Select Novels Vol. 3 (Harper & Brothers, 1842) - Rienzi title page, 1842
  • Harper's Select Novels Vol. 3 (Harper & Brothers, 1842) - engraved frontispiece
  • Harper's Select Novels Vol. 3 (Harper & Brothers, 1842) - Self-Devotion title page, 1842
  • Harper's Select Novels Vol. 3 (Harper & Brothers, 1842) - Self-Devotion preface
  • Harper's Select Novels Vol. 3 (Harper & Brothers, 1842) - American Notes by Charles Dickens title page, 1842
  • Harper's Select Novels Vol. 3 (Harper & Brothers, 1842) - American Notes dedication page
  • Harper's Select Novels Vol. 3 (Harper & Brothers, 1842) - contents and text pages
  • Harper's Select Novels Vol. 3 (Harper & Brothers, 1842) - text pages
  • Harper's Select Novels Vol. 3 (Harper & Brothers, 1842) - inside covers and boards
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Harper's Select Novels Vol. 3: The Czarina, Rienzi, Self-Devotion, American Notes

Harper's Select Novels Vol. 3: The Czarina, Rienzi, Self-Devotion, American Notes

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Condition: As Described

Book Notes: Both hinges split; front and back boards are held on with tape. Covers heavily worn; half leather spine and corners rubbed and chipped, marbled paper boards worn. Text block intact, with foxing and toning throughout. Engraved frontispiece present before Rienzi.

Author(s): Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Barbara Hofland, Harriette Campbell

Publication year: 1842

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: Harper & Brothers

Condition: As Described
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A bound volume from Harper & Brothers' Library of Select Novels (spine: Select Novels, 3), containing four works all printed in New York by Harper & Brothers in 1842:

  • The Czarina by Mrs. Barbara Hofland, a historical romance set at the Russian court of Catherine I.
  • Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton ("the author of Pelham"), a historical novel based on the life of Cola di Rienzo, the 14th-century Roman reformer who stood up for the common people against the feuding noble families.
  • Self-Devotion; or, The History of Katherine Randolph by Harriette Campbell ("the author of The Only Daughter"), published after her death and edited by G. R. Gleig ("the author of The Subaltern").
  • American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens, his account of his 1842 journey through North America. The Harper edition is an early authorized American edition, published in 1842, the same year as the London first edition.

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