Description: William Godwin St. Leon: A Tale of the 16th Century Richard Bentley 1850William Godwin. St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (Bentley’s Standard Novels Series). London: Richard Bentley, 1850. Reprint edition. Twelvemo. viii + 478pp. Publisher’s brown decorative cloth, stamped in gilt to spine, boards in blind; ads to endleaves.St. Leon is notable for the partial retraction of Godwin’s extreme radicalism in Political Justice. A Rosicrucian romance, St. Leon is said to be founded upon a passage that appeared in Campbell’s translation of Hermippus Redivivus. Mary Wollstonecraft is portrayed as Maguerite in this novel. Block p89. Summers, Gothic Bibliography, p.49. Gardner, Biblioteca Rosicruciana, 262. Extremities rubbed and edgeworn; joints starting; hinges light cracked; light dampstaining, foxing, and offsetting to front matter; minor toning throughout. About very good. NPD-00077A Please visit our eBay store for more great fiction and literature! https://www.ebay.com/str/inkqnabula/Literature-Genre-Fiction/_i.html?store_cat=24481125014
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Binding: Cloth
Language: English
Original/Facsimile: Original
Region: Europe
Place of Publication: London
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Author: William Godwin
Publisher: Richard Bentley
Topic: Novels
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1850