The Gentle Life. Essays In Aid Of Formation Of Character :

Pp, viii, 312. Original full calf gilt. All edges gilt. Friswell, chose to publish this work anonymously, to guarantee honest reviews; several works thereafter were designated simply 'by the author of The Gentle Life'. Its success (upwards of 20,000 copies of the 6s. edition sold within four years; Queen Victoria admired it, allowing a special edition to be dedicated to her in 1870; it reached a thirty-eighth edition in 1892.