Author: [Aunt Annie]
Title: THE MOUNTAIN REFUGE or Sure help in time of need. A tale of the Vaudois in the sixteenth century. [The dedication signed: Aunt Annie.]
Description: London, Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday 1st edition first printing 1862 Frontispiece with tissue guard . 167x115mm red-brown cloth blindstamped and decorated gilt titling to spine [tips quite worn/6mm split to top of hinges/cloth dusty] 232pp +12p publisher's booklist. Lacks front free endpaper and edge of pages sl.dusty with some foxing and wear and a three corners creased but a neat tight copy with all text visible and largley unmarked. *A postscript explains that these valleys nestle beetween France and Italy and that all the incidents in the story are based on facts. The inhabitants of these regions suffered religious persecutions from the early 1300's to 1831. Printed on Fleet Street. SCARCE

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