This beautiful antique book is 135 years old. The spine is wearing and beginning to crack. The book pages, however, are in great condition. This book is a collectable to be treasured and left closed. Price is the book is negotiable. The book is lovingly inscribed (in 1887) from a mother to her son on the first blank page of book. A narrative poem by Robert, Lord Lytton, published under the pseudonym of Owen Meredith. The heroine, Lucile, is beloved by two bitter rivals, the English Lord Alfred Hargrave [i.e., Vargrave] and the French Duke of Luvois. She loves Alfred, but misunderstanding keeps them apart. Long years after, Alfred's son and the Duke's niece fall in love, are separated by the old feud but finally reunited through the efforts of Lucile, who has become a nursing nun, under the name of Soeur#poetry#classic#antique#1880s#collectorsitem#collectible#indiabamboo#treasure#rarebook