[Radcliffe (Ann)] A Sicilian Romance by the authoress of The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, 2 vol., first edition, lacking half-titles, small hole to lower margin of vol. 1 B1, scattered foxing, 19th century bookseller's label of T. Hookham to vol. 1 front pastedown, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked and recornered, preserving original backstrips (a little rubbed and chipped at ends), preserved in custom calf-backed drop back box, [Garside, Raven and Schowerling 1790:61; Rothschild 1699; Summers p. 503; Tymn 1-314], 12mo, T. Hookham, 1790.

⁂ Radcliffe's rare second novel. In A Sicilian Romance Radcliffe begins to develop some of the key themes that would come to dominate her later, more famous works, and would later be adopted by other authors including Charlotte Brontë.