JAMES, HENRY, JR. | Daisy Miller: A Study. An International Episode. Four Meetings. London: Macmillan and Co., 1879

The Property of a Gentleman

JAMES, HENRY, JR. 

Daisy Miller: A Study. An International Episode. Four Meetings. London: Macmillan and Co., 1879

Two volumes, 8vo (4 7/8 x 7 1/4 in.; 123 x 183). Title-page to each volume, publisher's advertisements to the end of Vol. II; minor foxing. Full blue cloth covered boards, covers ruled in black and blind, spines gilt lettered, brown coated endpapers; minor edgewear, spines lightly sunned. Each in custom quarter blue silk over marbled board clamshell case. 

First English editions, first issues, of Daisy Miller: A Study and An International Episode

Daisy Miller remains one of James's most popular and also scarcest works. There were only two printings of 250 copies each, issued a month apart. With its large print and wide spacing, this edition of Daisy Miller demonstrates the degree to which the multi-volume format had become the standard. These three tales could have easily fit within one volume, but the lending libraries (who bought almost all of the copies) insisted upon multiple volumes as it increased their rental income.

A fine copy of a remarkably scarce title

REFERENCES

Blanck 10540; Edel & Laurence A8b

PROVENANCE

B.W. Horne (booklabel to front pastedown of Vol. I)