Abel Allnutt. A Novel

London: Richard Bentley, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. Modern three quarter reddish brown morocco and marbled boards. Fine in very good blue plush lined cloth slipcase. 318, 311, 317 Pages. 19 x 12 cm. The author was an English diplomat and writer whose fame depends on The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan (1824), a picaresque romance of Persian life that long influenced English ideas of Persia. SADLEIR. 1792. WOLLF. 4924. Backstrips lettered in gilt.