HEADLONG HALL
AND
NIGHTMARE ABBEY
BY THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK
ILLUSTRATED BY H. R. MILLAR
BINDING AND ENDPAPERS DESIGNED BY A. A. TURBAYNE
*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ BEAUTIFUL ART NOUVEAU FINE BINDING ~ CLASSIC ***
London and New York: MacMillan & Co., 1896.
• measures about 7.25" x 5"
• beautiful original publisher's decorative cloth Art Nouveau fine binding designed by Albert Angus Turbayne (stamp-signed with his cipher)
• detailed embossed gold gilt stamping with peacock motif
• textblock all edges gilt
• pictorial endpapers
• frontispiece with tissue-guard
• many full-page plates and part-page pictures
Nightmare Abbey is a Gothic topical satire (akin to Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey) in which Thomas Love Peacock parodies the romantic movement in contemporary English literature, in particular its obsession with morbid subjects, misanthropy, and transcendental philosophical systems. Most characters in the novel are based on historical figures.
Headlong Hall is the first novel by Thomas Love Peacock, written in 1815 and first published in 1816. Peacock assembles a group of eccentrics, each with a monomaniacal obsession, and derives humor and social satire from their interactions and conversations. The setting is the Welsh country estate of Squire Harry Headlong Ap-Rhaiader, Esq.
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