Gryll Grange. By the Author of ‘Headlong Hall’ …

London: Parker, Son, and Bourn … 1861

8vo., pp. viii, 316, [4, integral advertisements]; apart from a little foxing, a very good copy in original green pebble grain cloth, bright but slightly shaken.

£400

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US $523€477

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First edition in book form, following serialisation in Fraser’s, of Peacock’s final novel, perhaps his most witty and urbane. At a convivial house party at Gryll Grange the eccentric guests debate a whole range of mid-Victorian issues from the pretensions of science and the zeal of the reformers to the new-fangled ‘pantopragmatic cookery’, spirit rapping, and the competitive examinations for the Civil Service. Peacock’s inveterate hostility to modern innovation imbues every episode. Written at the age of 75, thirty years after his last previous novel (Crotchet Castle, 1831), Gryll Grange is a remarkable performance.

Sadleir 1957k (in the Gaisford set); Wolff 5479.

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