Item #24762 Castle Rackrent And The Absentee; Illustrated by Chris Hammond. With An Introduction By Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Maria Edgeworth.

Castle Rackrent And The Absentee; Illustrated by Chris Hammond. With An Introduction By Anne Thackeray Ritchie

London & New York: Macmillan And Co., 1895. Hardcover. 382 pages. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. The Absentee criticizes Anglo-Irish landlords who lived in England, neglecting their Irish estates and tenants. "Rackrent" has a similar theme. Anne Thackeray Ritchie, was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray. Interior fresh and almost as new as are the plates. Front cover and spine elaborately decorated in gilt motifs, lettering also in gilt. Decorated endpapers. Macmillan's Illustrated Standard Novel ad laid-in. Orig. black cloth decorated in gilt. Aeg. Fine. Item #24762

Price: $195.00

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