Physical description
221 p.: plain red cover, section of original dust jacket pasted to front cover, image of man leering at a partially clothed woman.'Blurb' from original dust jacket pasted inside front cover.
Publication type
fiction
Inscriptions & markings
Stamps indicating book was formerly in other collections: 'Shaws Book Club, 77 Holmes Street, East Brunswick'; 'Maldon Athenaeum and Free Library'.
Summary
Tale of "moral adventurer" Lance Courtenay, who began life as Lancaster Higger-Piggott, a humble law clerk. Very loosely based on real events and people in the eighteenth century.
