{"product_id":"green-anna-katharine-the-doctor-his-wife-and-the-clock","title":"GREEN, Anna Katharine. The Doctor, His Wife and The Clock.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eThe Mother of American Mysteries\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGREEN, Anna Katharine.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Doctor, His Wife and The Clock. \u003ci\u003eLondon: T. Fisher Unwin.\u003c\/i\u003e 1895.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTall 16mo. Publisher’s brown wrappers illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley and printed in red, printer’s device in black to rear cover; pp. [iv], 131, [1]; with 2 ff. plates comprising frontispiece repeating Beardsley’s illustration with facing architectural illustration, with tissue guard; lettering to spine faded, spine ends chipped, a few chips to upper cover; else a very good copy, uncut; nineteenth-century compliments slip of J.W. Wild loosely inserted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition of this detective story by the ‘mother of the American detective novel’, with wrappers and a frontispiece designed by Beardsley.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrooklyn-born Anna Katharine Green (1846–1945, here published under her married name, Rohlfs) was the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Leavenworth Case\u003c\/i\u003e (1878), one of the earliest mysteries written by an American woman; the work received high praise from Wilkie Collins: ‘Her powers of invention are so remarkable – she has so much imagination and so much belief (a most important qualification for our art) in what she says … Dozens of times reading the story I have stopped to admire [Green’s] fertility of invention’. The Leavenworth Case introduced her detective protagonist, Ebenezer Gryce, who reappears here as the investigator of a seemingly unsolvable murder in nineteenth-century New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeardsley’s image is taken from the poster he designed to promote Fisher Unwin’s children’s books. He had also designed a poster for Fisher Unwin’s ‘Pseudonym Library’, later issued in reduced form as ‘an advertisement slip for insertion in books and magazines’ (Ross 77).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe loosely inserted compliment slip may be that of John William Wild, architect, brother-in-law of Owen Jones (who used Wild’s sketches as the basis for a portion of the \u003ci\u003eGrammar of Ornament\u003c\/i\u003e), and curator of Sir John Soane’s Museum, although it was seemingly retroactively inserted: he had died, at the museum, no less, in 1892.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGertner Zatlin 972; Samuels Lasner 75b.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2124692\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64326559793529,"sku":"2124692","price":275.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2124692.jpg?v=1787325538","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/green-anna-katharine-the-doctor-his-wife-and-the-clock","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}