Clarke (Marcus) His Natural Life, a new edition, upper joint starting to crack, contemporary blue half calf, spine with red morocco label, worn, 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1878.
⁂ An early one-volume edition of this classic convict novel. First published in the Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872, Bentley published the first English edition as a 3 vol. novel in 1875; Bentley had required Clarke to made some changes, most significantly, to add an epilogue giving the 'happy' ending that Bentley's readers required. Bentley would later change the title, against Clarke's wishes, to For the Term of His Natural Life.
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