The Warden Trollope, Anthony & Gabain, Ethel (Illus.)

Published: 1926. 1st Thus Edition. DESCRIPTION: Red boards with gilt lettering to front and spine. Portrait frontis lithograph with guard plus 8 other bw plates by Ethel Gabain. Rough cut page edges. Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good+: Clean bright boards with bumped lower corners and minor creasing to lower end of spine. Light age toning to intact endpapers with strong hinges. Prev owner name to ffep dated 1931. Tightly bound with clean unmarked pages. DJ Condition: No DJ Pages 260. Size: 8vo 24cm by 15cm. BOOK RESUME: The Warden focuses on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in possession of an income from a charity far in excess of the sum devoted to the purposes of the foundation. On discovering this, young John Bold turns his reforming zeal to exposing what he regards as an abuse of privilege, despite the fact that he is in love with Mr. Hardings daughter Eleanor.