£60
12mo, pp. ix, [iii], 232. Original red textured cloth, boards bordered with triple blind rules and blocked in blind, spine divided by triple blind rules and lettered direct in gilt. Poor-quality paper a touch toned and spotted. A little shaken, one gathering partly sprung, somewhat soiled, extremities bumped.
A rare Scottish novel, recorded in just the NLS by Library Hub, with Worldcat adding only Monash University Library in Australia. The NLS attribute it to historian and novelist James Henry Froude (1818-1894), almost certainly because of his use of the pseudonym Zeta for his 1847 novel Shadows of the Clouds, but that was a semi-autobiographical novel of apostasy, while this is a Glasgow-set romance. Additionally the preface is signed from Perth, while Froude was an Oxford Fellow at that time. Neither Sadleir nor Wolff record it, and Monash attribute it to Sir Zachary Cope, who wasn't born until 1881.
