“To Have and To Hold,” the second novel by author and women’s rights activist Mary Johnston. First Edition, 1900, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, The Riverside Press, Cambridge. With illustrations by Howard Pyle, E.B. Thompson, A.W. Betts, and Emlen McConnell.
“Will you take this little purple flower—and all my heart beside?” Historical romance set in colonial Virginia. Lady Jocelyn Leigh and Captain Ralph Percy navigate the politics of emigration, colonialism, gender, marriage, and romance with love and resilience. The best-selling novel in 1900, adapted for the screen in 1916, 1922, and 2019.
Green cloth cover decorated with gilt lettering and a violet flower beginning to bloom and with deep green leaves; green flower bud on the spine. No dust jacket. 403 pages. Eight black and white illustration plates, all present, with tissue paper over the frontispiece plate. Good antique condition. Hinges cracked, spine slightly cocked. Penciled price on front pastedown, former owner’s name written neatly in ink on flyleaf, which has transferred slightly to pastedown. Soiled covers and text block. Expected shelf wear, especially at corners. Tanned but clean pages.
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