Author: JONES (afterwards LOWNDES, Hannah Maria):
Title: The Wedding Ring: or, Married and Single. A Domestic Tale
Description: London: Printed by C. Baynes.... Published by George Virtue..., 1824. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo,k 210 x 130 mms., pp. 718, engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title-page, 7 other engraved plates, , bound in contemporary mottled calf, neatly is rather plainly rebacked, spine gilt lettered, minor soiling or spotting, but a good copy. The list of plates suggest that there should a further one at page 309 not present in this copy, but it appears it is absent from other copies that I have checked. Published first in four volumes. Hannah Maria Jones wrote twenty-three novels during her career, which stretched from 1820 to 1850, yet despite her huge output and massive popularity, only a few reviews of her works have been traced, though this one was reviewed in the Monthly Critical Review, with the reviewer commenting, "The other incidents of this tale, and the other characters, are marked by no features of originality; but the style is better than that of the common class of novels, and it is commendably free from the cant of religion, which has of late so disgustingly obtruded in works of this description."

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