Published by 1891-1899, V.p., 1891
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Six volumes bound in one; thick 12mo (18cm.); contemporary half green calf over cloth, gilt-ruled spine in six compartments, all edges speckled red. Leather rubbed with some peeling at corners, spine toned, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, textblock of one tract rather browned due to poor paper stock, else Near Very Good, internally near fine. Contents as follows:. 1. Henry George. Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth. - The Remedy. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1889. x,406pp. 2. Robert Blatchford. Merrie England. London: Clarion Office, 1894. "Cheap Edition." 206pp. Facsimile illus. 3. John Smith. England's Ruin; or, John Smith's Answer to Mr. Blatchford's Plea for Socialism as contained in the widely-circulated book Merrie England. London: Walter Scott, 1895. 31pp. Portrait illus. 4. Thomas Paine. The Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. London: Progressive Publishing Company, 1891. "Centenary Edition." xiii,[14]-163pp. 5. George Blaiklock. Socialism: False and True. A Review and an Exposure. London: G. Cohen, n.d., ca. 1890s. 16pp. 6. Leo Tolstoi [alt. spelling Tolstoy]; A. Hulme Beaman, trans. Master and Man. London: Chapman and Hall, 1895. 125pp.