Item #H23035 Almack's Revisited; or Herbert Milton, 2 volumes complete. Charles White.
Almack's Revisited; or Herbert Milton, 2 volumes complete
Almack's Revisited; or Herbert Milton, 2 volumes complete
Almack's Revisited; or Herbert Milton, 2 volumes complete
Almack's Revisited; or Herbert Milton, 2 volumes complete
Almack's Revisited; or Herbert Milton, 2 volumes complete
Almack's Revisited; or Herbert Milton, 2 volumes complete
Almack's Revisited; or Herbert Milton, 2 volumes complete

Almack's Revisited; or Herbert Milton, 2 volumes complete

New York: J. and J. Harper, 1828. First American edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo, cloth backed boards with printed paper spine labels, good solid set with some wear and rubbing, small stains, light soil, to bindings, still tightly bound, contents very good but foxing throughout. The boards are different colors: the first volume has pale cream boards, the second has salmon boards. Col. Charles White was born in 1793 in Shropshire. He attended Eton and entered the army where he served under Wellington in the Peninsular campaign and later as adjunct to the Duke of Cambridge. He wrote four novels: Herbert Milton (1827) (retitled "Almack's Revisited"), The Adventures of a King's Page (1829), The Married Unmarried (1837), and The Cashmere Shawl (1840). Thereafter he gave up fiction. White also wrote two travel books, The Belgic Revolution (1835) and Three Years in Constantinople; or, Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1844 (1845). He died in 1861 in Brussels. Good. Item #H23035

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