Quality Chase

120pp. Black cloth boards (mottled, slightly bowed, a little worn). Ex library, with lending marks on front endpaper only. Fingered, else internally generally neat and clean. In an original period dust jacket (rubbed and chapped at edges, a couple of short closed tears, nick on front, creased and repaired on spine). Novel recounting the strange career of Jonathan Chase, which began in Birmingham in the 1870s – a period glowing the light of John Bright and the spiritual power of Cardinal Newman, both of whom exert strong influence on Chase. Watch him being taken up by Joseph Chamberlain, whose figure dominates both Chase and the novel.