
Lot 16•
COLLINS (WILKIE) The Moonstone. A Romance, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, Tinsley Brothers, 1868
14 June 2017, 13:00 BST
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COLLINS (WILKIE)
The Moonstone. A Romance, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles and titles to volumes 1 & 3 only (replaced in good facsimile in volume 2), advertisement leaves at end of volumes 2 & 3, publisher's maroon blindstamped cloth, spines gilt, worn, neatly rebacked and restored preserving most of original backstrips [Sadleir 598; Wolff 1368], 8vo, Tinsley Brothers, 1868
Footnotes
SCARCE IN PUBLISHER'S CLOTH. Inspired by the case of Constance Kent, who murdered her younger brother in 1860, The Moonstone is a pioneering classic of the detective fiction genre, "with many features repeatedly borrowed by later writers such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and Dorothy L. Sayers" (ODNB).