The Spirit World by Florence Marryat second edition

MARRYAT, Florence. The Spirit World. London: F. V. White & Co., 1895.
 
Second edition. Octavo. 299pp. Publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards, with advertisements to the front and rear pastedowns and endpapers. Overall Good. Boards rubbed, soiled and worn, with wear to edges and corners; spine worn with webbing exposed at the joints and internally at the hinges, though the binding remains holding. Contents generally sound.
 
An early edition of Florence Marryat's work on spiritualism, following the first edition of 1894. Marryat, already well known as a novelist, became one of the more prominent late-Victorian advocates of spiritualism and wrote extensively from her own claimed experiences of seances, spirit communication and materialisation. The contents include chapters on "The Cure for Death", "Spiritualism and the Bible", "What Authors and Poets Think of Spiritualism", "Miss Marryat's Bogus Bogey", and "How to Investigate Spiritualism".
 
Particularly attractive in the original pictorial boards, the front showing a spirit figure materialising above a seated man, with further illustrated contemporary advertisements at the front and rear.