Hardcover 1972 Oxford Clarendon. First edition. Black cloth boards with dust jacket. Illustrated. Dust jacket has badly faded spine and there is a black mark on the bottom corner of the page edges. Otherwise in very good condition with tight, clean text block. Marilyn Butler has written the first study of Edgeworth examining why an Anglo-Irish woman living on a remote estate pioneered a new kind of sociological realism, and thus became an important figure in the development of 19th century novel.