Description
The Details:
In great condition for its age. Most damage is on the front endpage where a bookplate has been peeled off (see photo). Otherwise, sturdy and pages are clear. Boards are old and damaged. Beautiful illustrated frontspiece.
The Story:
Joan the Maid: deliverer of England and France. A story of the fifteenth century.
The Author:
Charles’s best known book, written to order for an editor who wished for a story about Martin Luther, The Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family, was published in 1862, and was translated into most of the European languages, into Arabic, and into many Indian dialects. Mrs Charles wrote in all over fifty books, the majority of a semi-religious character, as well as writing and translating a number of hymns. (Wiki)
