CONINGSBY;  OR, THE NEW GENERATION
LEIPZIG:  BERNH. TAUCHNITZ JUN,  1844
 
f'cap 8vo, true first Tauchnitz printing, pp,442, contemporary half-calf with raised bands, light wear to the marbled covers, neat early notes to the leading extra free endpaper, binder's ticket to the reverse of the leading green endpaper, scattered foxing some of which is rather heavy, remains a decent copy of a rare item.
Part of the famous "collection of British Authors" volume 67 and printed with the sanction of the author for Continental circulation.
This novel first published in London in 1844 is the first part of Disraeli's "Young England" trilogy.  A political novel that explores the state of British politics after the Reform Act of 1832, advocating for a "Tory Paternalism" that unites the aristocracy and the working class.
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