John Inglesant A Romance (2 vol.)

John Inglesant A Romance (2 vol.)

Author: Shorthouse, Joseph Henry (9 September 1834 – 4 March 1903)

8vo.(5.25" x 8.5") 1881. Shorthouse, Joseph Henry. London. Macmillan and Co.Quarter brownn leather with corners, single blindstamp rule to all leather edges, over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands, gilt title in second compartment, gilt vol# to third compartment, gilt year at foot, blindstamp rule to head and foot of spine.All edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Minor edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to lower tips, head of spine to vol.1. chipped with tiny loss, covers lightly rubbed. Bookplate of James Watson to front pastedowns, newspaper article about author;'s death tipped in to first free endpaper. Notes in old ink about author neatly to title page. Overall, a beautiful set of books.

From Wiki: Joseph Henry Shorthouse (9 September 1834 – 4 March 1903) was an English novelist. His first novel, John Inglesant, was particularly admired as a "philosophical romance". It discusses a religious intrigue in the English 17th century. Shorthouse spent ten years up to 1876 working on his first book, John Inglesant, which initially appeared privately. It was eventually noticed by Mrs Humphry Ward and through her intervention by Alexander Macmillan, who published it commercially in 1881. A story of 17th-century religious intrigue and faith, it hinges on a man who fights on the Royalist side in the Civil War, moves between Anglican and Catholic circles, and forgives the man who murdered his brother. However, as an encyclopedist notes, "Its revenge plot – in which Inglesant pursues his brother's murderer – is less important than the hero's spiritual journey and assertion of the claims of the Anglican Church." The book at once made Shorthouse famous. Though said to be deficient in its structure as a story and unappealing to the general public, it fascinated people by the charm of its style, by a "dim religious light", with which it was suffused, and by occasional striking scenes. More recently it has been described as "one of the best examples of the philosophical romance in English literature". Shorthouse dedicated John Inglesant to Rawdon Levett, his friend and fellow teacher at King Edward's School, Birmingham. Other admirers of the work included T. H. Huxley, Charlotte Yonge and Edmund Gosse. He was invited to breakfast at 10 Downing Street by the Prime Minister, Gladstone. The book sold 9000 copies in its first year.

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