GEORGE DU MAURIER. Trilby: A Novel, first illustrated edition 1895.

Osgood, Mc Ilvaine & Co, London, 1895. With 121 illustrations by the author. X,447,5 (ads) p. Printed by R & R Clark Edinburgh.
Förlagets dekorerade originalklotband. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt illustration on front board, gilt top edge and the other edges rough-cut.
Namnteckning E H Britton (Commander R.N.) 1895.
Trilby is a gothic horror novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time, Trilby is set in the 1850's in an idyllic bohemian Paris. Trilby O'Ferrall, the novel's heroine, is a magnificent half-Irish girl working in Paris as an artists' model and laundress; all the men in the novel are in love with her. The charming Trilby, an artist's model,slowly falls under the mesmeric spell of Svengali, a German-Polish musician, who trains her voice and establishes her as a famous singer. His power over her is such that when he dies her voice collapses, she loses her eminence, languishes, and finally dies herself.