MOORE, George (barrister at law). Grasville Abbey; A romance, London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797, 3 volumes, 12°, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, with half titles and final blank in volume II (B1 of vol. I slightly torn at inner margin, vol. III with clean tear across F6, tear at outer margin of FII just touching text, and triangular piece torn from outer margin of F12, quire L a little spotted and soiled), contemporary half calf over blue marbled boards, flat-backed spines ruled, titled and numbered in gilt (spines slightly frayed and crinkled). [Block p. 165; Summers p. 343; no copy of the first edition in ESTCm] (3)

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MOORE, George (barrister at law). Grasville Abbey; A romance, London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797, 3 volumes, 12°, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, with half titles and final blank in volume II (B1 of vol. I slightly torn at inner margin, vol. III with clean tear across F6, tear at outer margin of FII just touching text, and triangular piece torn from outer margin of F12, quire L a little spotted and soiled), contemporary half calf over blue marbled boards, flat-backed spines ruled, titled and numbered in gilt (spines slightly frayed and crinkled). [Block p. 165; Summers p. 343; no copy of the first edition in ESTCm] (3)

Provenance

Thomas Hammond Foxcroft, book label and signature to each title.

Lot Essay

As one of the smaller group of male novelists, Moore seems to have specialised in delineating the passions rather than the feelings. He also wrote Theodosius de Zulvin; The Monk of Madrid (1802), The Courtesan; An English tale, an illustration of the passion of revenge (1808), The Married Man; An English tale, in which is attempted an illustration of the passion of jealousy (1811) and Tales of the Passions (1814). Grasville Abbey appears to have been his second novel, following on from Society and Manners published much earlier in 1779. ESTCm records a 2-volume edition published in Cork and another in Dublin, both in 1798, and even a Salem, Massachussets, edition of 1799, but no copy of the first edition.

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