Duke Christian of Luneburg; or, Tradition from the Hartz.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. First Edition. First edition. A historical romance set in the 17th-century Balkan Peninsula, about the Duke Christian of Luneburg’s efforts to free the Bohemians, Croats, and others from domination by the Turks.
“His Majesty George IV was so pleased with [her prior work] that he requested Miss Porter to take for her next hero his great ancestor, Duke Christian of Luneburg. . . she complies, of course, with His Majesty’s gracious request. . . The king furnished her with the documents, and declared that the ‘work had been completed according to his fullest wishes.’” Appleton, The Novel of the Eighteenth Century (1880, pg. 55-56).
3 vols. 12mo. viii, 357pp., [1]; [1], 416pp.; [1], 402pp., [6, ads]; half titles wanting. Wolff 5605. Garside 1824:77. Very good in nineteenth-century brown half calf, marbled paper boards, gilt rules, joints rubbed, and hinges just starting. Item #324
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