Before Jane Austen: The Shaping of the English Novel in the Eighteenth Century

8vo., hardback in dust jacket, 399pp., with b/w contemporary Eighteenth-century illustrations. Small ink gift inscription to inside front cover (hidden by dust jacket). Dust jacket not price-clipped (42s. net). Page edges slightly browned. Spine and lower cover of dust jacket a little tanned. Overall VG in Good+ dust jacket