London :, New York : E. Benn limited, George H. Doran company, 1927, Hardback, Book Condition: Very Good, Limited

Near fine copies in original gilt-blocked, vellum-backed cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong."Of this facsimile reproduction ... 500 copies only have been printed." --verso t.p. Introductory note signed by author. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Physical description: 2 v. illus., facsims. ; 26 cm. Subjects: English novels -- English fiction. Summary: A classic work of English fiction which celebrates the romance of even the most ordinary lives as it tells the story of the two Baines sisters, placid stay-at-home Constance and rebellious Sophia, from their girlhood to their last days. They move from the family drapery shop in provincial Bursley during the repressive mid-Victorian period to old age in the modern era of mass marketing and the internal combustion engine. The setting ranges from the Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Bursley to a Paris brothel, the action from the controlled domestic routine of the Baines household to wife murder and the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1. Inventory No: 198354.