Description
A first edition, first printing of ‘Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell’ published by Bloomsbury in 2004. A very good book with a previous owner’s bookplate and small number – Inscribed on the title page ‘To Nicolas Kinloch/with all good wishes/Susanna Clarke’ and also signed, ‘Portia Rosenberg’ to the title page in like clipped black wrapper.
Susanna Clarke’s witty, intricate fantasy novel set in an alternate 19th-century England where practical magic has faded into scholarship. Reclusive Mr Norrell restores English magic, then takes the younger, bolder Jonathan Strange as his pupil and rival. Their partnership unravels amid war, prophecy, faerie bargains, and dangerous ambition. Blending Austen-like social comedy with dark myth, the novel explores knowledge, power, obsession, and the costs of reviving enchantment in modern Britain.
