Baring-Gould (Sabine) Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes, 2 vol., first edition, 1880.
Baring-Gould (Rev. Sabine) Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, advertisement leaf at end of vol.1, slight spotting at beginnings and ends, later half dark blue half crushed morocco, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, spine gilt in compartments with floral decorations, t.e.g., others uncut, spine slightly browned, a little rubbed at edges, [Sadleir 162; Wolff 271], 8vo, 1880.
⁂ Written by the rector of East Mersea the work is set on the 19th century Essex coast, with its marshes, smugglers, wildfowlers and local characters. Swinburne compared it to Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. "Truly rare book" (Wolff).
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Baring-Gould (Rev. Sabine) Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, advertisement leaf at end of vol.1, slight spotting at beginnings and ends, later half dark blue half crushed morocco, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, spine gilt in compartments with floral decorations, t.e.g., others uncut, spine slightly browned, a little rubbed at edges, [Sadleir 162; Wolff 271], 8vo, 1880.
⁂ Written by the rector of East Mersea the work is set on the 19th century Essex coast, with its marshes, smugglers, wildfowlers and local characters. Swinburne compared it to Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. "Truly rare book" (Wolff).
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