Vivian Grey

A young man of ability and no scruples sets out to make himself indispensable to a great man and is destroyed by his own cleverness. Disraeli wrote it anonymously at twenty-one; London read it as a roman a clef, identified everyone, and the scandal nearly ended him before he began. This edition is bound with 58 plates after Thomas Lawrence, Thomas Rowlandson and Patrick Nasmyth, among others, and ...