The Wandering Jew

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1845. 3/4 Leather octavo with marbled boards and endpapers; raised bands; 598p; 23cm A very good (-) copy; pages are browned but readable; marbling is bright and vivid; binding tight; edgewear and rubbing to boards and spine; leaves are darkened and foxed at extremities; elegant 1846 pencil inscription on flyleaf; corners bumped . Hardcover.

Translated from the French. "The Wandering Jew was a serially published novel, which attained great popularity in Paris, and beyond. According to historian John McGreevy, the novel was intensely and deliberately "anti-Catholic". Its publication, and that of its predecessor The Mysteries of Paris, greatly increased the circulation of the magazines in which they were published; in addition they are held to have influenced legislation on the Jesuits, and caused a general "jesuitophobie". Antonio Bresciani's L'Ebreo di Verona (The Jew of Verona, 1850) was intended as an answer to Sue's The Wandering Jew. The novel is over 1,400 pages long. An opera, Le Juif errant, by Fromental Halévy, was based on elements of the novel." --Wikipedia.