Frontispiece. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. Lightly scuffed, light foxing, very good. "It is not considered the correct thing at present to have two wives at a time. Therefore the first wife is got rid of by divorce as soon as a ... gentleman falls in love with a second. Mr. Crawshay makes his hero behave (having regard to the Western system of morality) in somewhat the same fashion, only that of course wife number one has to die of a decline before the hero can be made happy with wife number two." (Review in The Spectator). Despite the title, the main setting is actually Russia.