Sobre el autor e ilustrador:: George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (París (Francia), 6 de marzo de 1834 - Londres (Inglaterra), 8 de octubre de 1896) fue un autor y caricaturista británico. Portada de la primera edición de la novela (1895) con la imagen de la actriz Virginia Harned estampada en la cubierta. Este grabado fue realizado por Du Maurier mismo para la primera edición de la novela. Características exageradas de Svengali eran típicos de antisemitas representaciones de Judios en el cambio de siglo. 447pp, con 121ilustraciones de Geroge du Maurier en blanco y negro, dentro de texto, contiene: Trilby, hipnotizado por Svengali. The relation between Trilby and Svengali forms only a small portion of the novel, which is mainly an evocation of a milieu, but it is a crucial one.

Trilby O'Ferrall, the novel's heroine, is a half-Irish girl working in Paris as an artists' model and laundress all the men in the novel are in love with her. Though it features the stories of two English and a Scottish artist one of the most memorable characters is Svengali, a Jewish rogue, masterful musician, and hypnotist. Trilby is set in the 1850s in an idyllic bohemian Paris. Trilby (1894) is a novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siècle period after Bram Stoker's Dracula. Previous owner's name on the front endpaper. Full beige cloth with olive green & gilt design on the front cover, lightly sooiled, illustrated frontispiece and numerous other full page and in text illustrations.

Trilby by George du Maurier