The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story. REEVE (Clara).

From an Ancient Manuscript. By Clara Reeve. Editor of The Phoenix, and Translator of Barclay's Argensis. A New Edition.

Engraved frontispiece.

12mo. [176 x 106 x 10 mm]. 72pp. Later mabled paper wrappers.
London: printed [by Plummer, Seething-Lane] for T. Hughes, Ludgate-Hill, 1806.

Old repair to recto of outer margin of frontispiece, some soiling and minor staining throughout and with an early ink signature at the foot of the title. Not a very attractive copy, but complete and rare, with only one copy on Library Hub, at Oxford. First published anonymously in 1777 as The Champion of Virtue, a new edition appeared in 1778 under this revised title and in Reeve's own name.

Stock no. ebc8288