1896 The Sorrows of Satan or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest.

Title: The Sorrows of Satan or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire.
Author: By Marie Corelli. 
Publisher: Methuen & Co: London.
Published Date: 1896. Twenty Fifth Edition
Pagination: pp.487+ catalogue of books.  
Condition: Good - Very Good. 
 
 
Bound in a black cloth with a wings and star design to the front cover and gilt lettering to the cover and spine. The boards have some very minor rubbing and bumping to the edges, corners and to the head and tail of the spine. The contents are age toned with some heavy foxing to the preliminary pages and light intermittent foxing elsewhere. Spotting to the page edges. A few of the pages to the catalogue at the rear of the book have not yet been cut. 
 
This was not a book I was familiar with and so I sourced the following information from Valencourt Books: 
"When the Devil arrives in fin de siècle London in the form of the handsome and charming Prince Lucio Rimânez, his work promises to be easy. After all, in a world where science and materialism have replaced a belief in God, who will suspect Lucio of being Satan in disguise? Lucio sets his sights on Geoffrey Tempest, a starving novelist who has just inherited a fortune, and promises to guide him to power and fame. As the tragic story of Geoffrey's meteoric rise and fall unfolds, Marie Corelli lays bare the hypocrisy, immorality, and irreligiousness of modern life, satire which is as fresh and relevant today as ever. Marie Corelli (1855-1924) was one of the most popular and best-selling novelists of the late Victorian period, her books selling in the millions of copies worldwide."