![]() ![]() Some faint offsetting to the corners of endpapers. ![]() Neatly rebacked and recornered with portions of the original spine laid down, but still an attractive set. Her supreme achievement in this novel is probably the use she makes of stock Gothic features like the ominously prophetic dream and the fragmented manuscript full of intimated horrors these parallel worlds of supernatural and natural terrors converge in the expliqué-as-revelation which concludes the novel and proves, as usual, that evil in this world is traceable to the acts of evil men who are inevitably exposed by the goodness of divine Providence.” (Murray). ![]() The Romance of the Forest, originally published earlier in the same year, was “Ann Radcliffe’s first major novel, as well as the one which established her reputation as the first among her era’s writers of romance. Contemporary quarter calf with later marbled boards, spines with five single raised bands, second panel lettered in gilt on red morocco labels, the third panels numbered in gilt on small circular green morocco labels, the rest tooled in gilt, yellow edges. ![]()
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