1887-95 Allan Quatermain, Colonel Quaritch, Montezuma's Daughter, Joan Haste

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Early Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

Four popular novels by H. Rider Haggard.

'Allan Quatermain', published in 1887, the third edition, twenty-sixth to thirtieth thousand. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and seventeen plates. Collated, bound without two plates, to face pages 36 and 264. Sixteen pages of publisher's adverts to the rear, dated June 1888. 

The sequel to Haggard's best known work 'King Solomon's Mines', following Quatermain as he longs to get back into the wilderness after the death of his son. 

'Colonel Quaritch', published in 1889, the first one volume edition of this work.

This novel follows the mystery of some lost family treasure and cryptic messages that could lead to its discovery.

'Montezuma's Daughter', published in 1894, the second edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and twenty-three plates. Collated, complete. Twenty-four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.

A gripping adventure novel by H. Rider Haggard, following a young Englishman named Thomas Wingfield. In this riveting work Wingfield has a brush with the Spanish Inquisition, and joins a Spanish expedition to New Spain, providing an interesting commentary on the early days of colonisation in South America.

'Joan Haste', published in 1895, the second edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and nineteen plates. Collated, complete. Twenty-four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear, dated August 1895.

A Victorian romance primarily set in London, revolving around a love affair hampered by differences in social class.