Baring-Gould (Sabine)] Mehalah A Story of the Salt Marshes, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, advertisement f. at end of vol.1, occasional spotting, later dark blue half crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf, gilt, spine in compartments and with floral decorations, [Sadleir 162; Wolff 271], 8vo, 1880. ⁂ 'Truly rare book' (Wolff). The work is set on the 19th century Essex coast, with its marshes, smugglers, wildfowlers and local characters. Swinburne compared it to Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.
Baring-Gould (Sabine)] Mehalah A Story of the Salt Marshes, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, advertisement f. at end of vol.1, occasional spotting, later dark blue half crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf, gilt, spine in compartments and with floral decorations, [Sadleir 162; Wolff 271], 8vo, 1880. ⁂ 'Truly rare book' (Wolff). The work is set on the 19th century Essex coast, with its marshes, smugglers, wildfowlers and local characters. Swinburne compared it to Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.
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