The Silent Witness by Edmund Yates 1875 First Edition
The Silent Witness
by Edmund Yates
Pub: Wm F. Gill & Co Boston
Date: 1875 First Edition
Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Fair, two inch tear to cloth along spine, corners bumped. Hinges cracked with webbing showing. First Edition, 168 pages Yates was a friend of Charles Dickens and an adversary of William Thackeray, having taken Dickens side in the dispute with his wife. He also served a jail sentence for criminal libel for an article he wrote in his weekly paper The World about Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale
by Edmund Yates
Pub: Wm F. Gill & Co Boston
Date: 1875 First Edition
Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Fair, two inch tear to cloth along spine, corners bumped. Hinges cracked with webbing showing. First Edition, 168 pages Yates was a friend of Charles Dickens and an adversary of William Thackeray, having taken Dickens side in the dispute with his wife. He also served a jail sentence for criminal libel for an article he wrote in his weekly paper The World about Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale