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12mo. New quarter calf, marbled boards, vellum corners, morocco labels, gilt rules and lettering.
An epistolary novel of manners and sentiment. The heroine, Agnes, embodies every perfection, but suffers nonetheless when she unknowingly marries her half brother. He commits suicide rather than live with the incestuous passion, and Agnes, mad with grief, dies a raving maniac (having leapt over the ha-ha). The prevailing message of the novel, indeed, is that the truly virtuous, like Agnes, are not meant for this world, and can attain their just rewards only in the afterlife.
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