Description
The first single volume edition of The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper, published by Richard Bentley of London.
Octavo, viii, 450pp. Bound in three quarter brown morocco, decorative raised bands, title in gilt, marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Includes frontispiece portrait with tissue cover. Light foxing to endpapers and frontispiece.
(BAL 3865)
In 1831, Richard Bentley began publishing the “Standard Novels” series, which took multi-volume works and condensed them to single volumes. The Pilot by James Fenimore Cooper was the first novel in the series, which would eventually include 126 volumes over a 24 year period.
