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4 Volume Wilkie Collins Collection

William Wilkie Collins, author of the first detective novels in English, was born in 1824. The son of a respected landscape painter, he was named after his painter godfather, David Wilkie. Educated in London, Collins studied to become a barrister, although it was never his intention to practise, and by 1848 he had turned to writing, a number of short works appearing in Charles Dickens’ periodicals, Household Words and later, All the Year Round. Developing at once detective fiction and the novel of sensation, Collins’ exotic and gripping stories – often involving strong heroines, sinister locales, charlatans, and physical or psychological afflictions – became hugely popular with the reading public. His great novels appeared in the 1860s, when, at the height of his powers, Collins’ wrote The Woman in White (1860), and The Moonstone (1868).

Four rarely seen, blue faux-leather bound books by Wilkie Collins, published by Heron Books in the 1960’s, illustrated with portrait frontispieces, the spines have gold lettering and gold ornamental designs on the front covers and endpapers, and have silk bookmarks. The individual titles are:

• The Moonstone 430pp
• The Woman In White 571pp
• Hide and Seek 356pp
• After Dark 355pp

Features;

• Publisher Heron Books, London; [1960]
• Blue Faux Leather Hardback with Gilt Titles and Decoration, Yellow Silk Ribbon
• Size 205 x 125mm, 2.5kg

Condition: Very Good – No Inscriptions, Very Good Collection

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