No Author Stated Mrs E Burrows (1 results)
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Language: English
Published by John F. Shaw & Co., London, 1863
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Yarra Cottage Books, Warrandyte, VIC, AustraliaYarra Cottage Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Title pages shows the author as "by the author of Household Proverbs, Hearth and Home, etc" (apparently Mrs E. Burrows). Contains 16-page sections on Martin Luther, Bernard Gilpin, Bernard Palissy, Robert Stephenson, John Howard, George Stephenson, John F. Oberlin, & Hugh Latimer. Each se…ction preceded by a full-page captioned vignette b&w engraving of the subject. Includes colour frontispiece. With 24 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear, as issued. Publisher's original printed paper-covered boards backed by unlettered brown cloth spine. NOTE: A GOOD READING COPY ONLY. Much handling wear, hinges cracked, marginal staining to endpapers, sporadic foxing, former owner's contemporary ink notations to endpapers (dated 1871), otherwise a clean tight copy. Paginated within sections. Uncommon.
