MARSHALL, Archibald. The Appletons of Herne. London: Collins. 1931. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in black to the spine and upper board, in the dust jacket with central motif by the elusive art deco artist, Baird. A near fine copy. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square. Light foxing to the textblock edges with ink previous owner signature to front endpaper, occasional singular spots throughout but otherwise clean. The dust jacket the first issue, correctly priced 7s 6d net to the spine. Complete, one tiny nick to spine head, a few mild bumps and rubbing to corners. A sharp example.
A family saga covering roughly one hundred years from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of the First World War. It follows the head of the family, Joseph Appleton, a London businessman who retreats to the country by purchase of an estate. Over the next three generations, the Appletons eschew commercial life and transition into rural landowners. Marshall was a noted chronicler of Victorian England and his portraits of expanding or decaying aristocratic family dynasties proved popular, especially in America. Sequels to this may have followed—as per his ‘The Clintons of Kencote’ series—but Marshall died in 1934.
MARSHALL, Archibald. The Appletons of Herne. London: Collins. 1931. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in black to the spine and upper board, in the dust jacket with central motif by the elusive art deco artist, Baird. A near fine copy. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square. Light foxing to the textblock edges with ink previous owner signature to front endpaper, occasional singular spots throughout but otherwise clean. The dust jacket the first issue, correctly priced 7s 6d net to the spine. Complete, one tiny nick to spine head, a few mild bumps and rubbing to corners. A sharp example.
A family saga covering roughly one hundred years from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of the First World War. It follows the head of the family, Joseph Appleton, a London businessman who retreats to the country by purchase of an estate. Over the next three generations, the Appletons eschew commercial life and transition into rural landowners. Marshall was a noted chronicler of Victorian England and his portraits of expanding or decaying aristocratic family dynasties proved popular, especially in America. Sequels to this may have followed—as per his ‘The Clintons of Kencote’ series—but Marshall died in 1934.
