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[Murray, Eustace Clare Grenville.]. FRENCH PICTURES IN ENGLISH CHALK (SECOND SERIES). By the Author of "The Member for Paris," &c. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1878. Octavo, original decorated brown cloth, brown coated endpapers. First edition. Nine short stories and novelettes set in France. The author, an illegitimate son of a Duke, was a diplomat and journalist whose savage satires on the aristocracy sometimes landed him in trouble. He was publicly horsewhipped once by an irate Lord Carrington. See Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, p. 452. Not in Sadleir or Wolff. Early owner's gift inscription on recto of front free endpaper. Corner tips turned, a bright, very good copy. (#115268).

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