GLAISTER, Elizabeth.
The Perfect Path. A Novel … in two Volumes …
London, Smith, Elder, & Co. … 1884.
2 vols. in one, 8vo., pp. [8], 281, [1]; [6], 264, [2], with a half-title to each volume, an initial blank and a terminal advertisement leaf; a very good copy in the original green publisher’s cloth (a remainder binding?), slightly rubbed, corners bumped; with a presentation inscription on the initial blank ‘E. L. de Gruchy from Aunt Glaister’, and a pencil ownership signature of E. L. Tillyard below.
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The Perfect Path. A Novel … in two Volumes …
First and only edition, scarce. The novel opens among a group of English expatriates in Mentone on the French Riviera, where Colonel Ashby wastes money at Monte Carlo. His spirited, ‘slangy’ and distinctly wayward daughter, Cordelia, is invited to live with her aunt in rural England, where her greatest desire becomes to learn how to be ‘Good’, with the aid of the local vicar Mr Odiarne. On her return to Mentone she tries to reform the rakish George Kingdom, who nevertheless bankrupts himself gaming and commits suicide; ‘Cordie’ herself comes to know the ‘Perfect Path’ through Odiarne’s example and her growing love for her cousin Mayne Wastel. Glaister also co-authored a treatise on needlework.
Not in Sadleir, Wolff, or Gains and Losses.
