Description

Early One Volume Edition containing the same 778 pp. in one volume as was included in the two volume issue. Illustrated throughout with a profusion of full page plates from photographs and drawings and paintings. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original off-white cloth over blue cloth covered boards, the spine and cover lettered in gilt and decorated with a facsimile of Lady Burton's signature in gilt to the center of the upper cover, top edge gilt. xvi, [1], 778 pp. A very fine beautifully preserved copy, the spine panel slightly mellowed.

Edizione: early one volume edition of this significant study. as sir richard burton’s wife, confidante, and fellow-adventurer, isabel burton led one of the most intriguing lives of any woman during the victorian era here is her own story, culled from letters, journals, and a memoir left unfinished at her death.<br> a reviewer for punch proclaimed, ‘to know lady burton as she stands revealed in this book is a privilege calculated to make women proud and man even humbler than is his wont.’