BAD LUCK. A Novel.

First edition, first printing. Three volumes. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to the spine. An excellent better than very good set, the bindings firm with a little bumping at the spine tips and corners, the cloth and gilt uniformly bright with just a few light marks to the boards. The contents, with an ownership signature to the front free endpaper of each volume are otherwise clean throughout. Inner hinges cracked but holding firm in volume one. An attractive example of a scarce title.

A romance, leading to a murder mystery and courtroom drama. The author (1829-1924) was a barrister and, at the time of publication, British Consul at New Orleans. He is the nephew of the journalist Albany William Fonblanque (1793-1872) (Wolf 2277; Bassett, Troy J.: "At the Circulating Library": A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837—1901).