Yeast: A Problem
London: John W. Parker, 1851. Very Good. Item #50288
London: John W. Parker. First Edition in book form. Octavo; bound in contemporary quarter brown morocco; five raised bands; stamped in gilt; top edge gilt; new marbled endpapers; 379, [1]pp, lacking rear advertisements. Light wear to extremities with exposure and bumping to top front corner; bindings sound; spotting to endpapers; a Very Good, handsomely bound copy.
Parrish notes that "because of the revolutionary movements in Europe in 1848, Fraser was dissuaded by conservative forces from publishing, at that time in book form, this first prose work of Charles Kingsley." Ernest Rhys, in his introduction to the Everyman edition of the book and speaking of the literature of the "Hungry Forties" called it "the hungriest in its desire to see revolution save the village," (Parrish pp. 7-8).
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