Wives and Daughters. by Gaskell, Elizabeth - 2002

London; The Folio Society, 2002., 2002. Hard Cover. FIRST THUS. Large octavo, pp. xx, [2], 3-678. Colour frontispiece and 19 further black and white full page plates by Alexy Pendle. Publishers' sapphire blue and gold damask patterned cloth with blck titles to gilt panel to spine andvroyal blue endpapers; housed in matching plain blue paper-covered slipcase. Gilt panel very slightly rubbed otherwise a clean bright copy which appears unread. No annotation or inscriptions. Slipcase very slightly scuffed. A Near Fine copy in like slipcase. Gaskell's final, longest, and arguably most accomplished novel follows the complex relationships of Molly Gibson, the naive only child of a widowed provincial doctor in the early 1830s. Gaskell's sudden death in 1865 left her work unfinished and so it was completed by Frederick Greenwood. First published in monthly instalments in the "Cornhill Magazine" from 1864-1866, this edition follows the 1996 Penguin edition. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.