Rare Early Jane Porter Book, "Thaddeus of Warsaw," Illustrated, c.1860 Antique Collector's Book - Jane Austen Contemporary Historical Novel of Manners

"A New Illustrated Edition, revised and enriched with new notes, etc. by the author." It would make a thoughtful collection addition for a fan of Jane Austen or Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte. In Georgian Great Britain (1801), after the Russian invasion of Poland, Jane Porter writes a Polish refugee to London protagonist in this historical-novel-meets-novel-of-manners.  Porter gives readers a bewitching romance, a mystery, an ancestral journey, and an examination of economics, immigration, gender, and prejudice. The book enjoyed early success, and Porter helped pen the way for her contemporary Jane Austen, as well as for the Brontes.  Published by Gorge Virtue, Ivy Lane, London. Special binding in half leather over aqua marbled boards with identical text block edges; raised bands and gold lettering and decoration on the spine. Binder's mark: "Creasey, Binder, Sleaford." 607 pages. Authored by one of the women who penned the way for Jane Austen and the Brontes. While the binding hold