Description: SgnLimEd 22 of 130 Arthur Machen The Canning Wonder 1925 1st UK VG First UK edition, first printing with MCMXXV (1925) on title page. Publisher: London Chatto & Windus 1925. 6" x 9.25" Octavio [x] [ii Blank] 1-250 [i Blank] [i Printer's Imprint]. Original orange boards with Japan vellum spine panel. Spine panel stamped in gilt. Top page edge stained gilt. Bottom and fore page edges untrimmed. Frontis plate illustration of Elizabeth Canning. No dust jacket. Signed Limited Edition, 22 of 130. Book Condition: Very Good Spine edges are very lightly rubbed. Sine lightly discolored. First blank page and printer's imprint are browned. Binding is tight. Text is clean. An account of Elizabeth Canning, an eighteenth-century serving girl 's inexplicable disappearance for thirty days in 1753. Two women were brought to trial and found guilty of holding her prisoner and stealing her stays; the latter was the capital offense. Further investigation caused the women to be released and a subsequent trial for perjury of which she was found guilty and transported to the United States. She never explained where she had been. The case caused an enormous fervor at the time.
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: Limited Edition
Signed: Yes
Author: Arthur Machen
Personalized: No
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Topic: Historical
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1925
