Persuasion

First published in 1817, this novel follows Anne Elliot, a baronet's daughter who years earlier was persuaded to break her engagement to the naval officer Frederick Wentworth. Now twenty-seven and sidelined in her vain father's household at Kellynch, she meets Wentworth again when the Elliots must let the house and move among the Musgroves and in Bath. Pride, money, and the ranking of naval fortune against landed status govern the renewed acquaintance. The setting is Somerset and Bath after the Napoleonic wars. It is a courtship novel about a second meeting, not a war story.

Bound in metallic gold buckram, cover blocked with a design in cream and black by the artist. Purple slipcase cover blocked in gilt with a phrase.