SAMUEL TUKE; His Life, Work and Thoughts

f/piece with tissue guard (sepia Tuke portrait)+t.tp. ('S', 'T' & 'London' in red)+x+283+(1, publisher's notice of two further titles), 7 further plates ex-pagination all with tissue guards; front blank fly has 1909-dated presentation inscription to 'Friends' Library Tunbridge Wells' above their early stamp, incipient gutter-opening between this leaf and preceding endpaper, but no immediate problem, end gutters good, light partial tanning to endpapers, front fly and verso final leaf (pub.noice), occ. brown flecking/foxing elsewhere, notably to tissue guards, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked; covers clean, minimally worn and bright for age but fairly large, but faint, round lib.label ghost towards bottom. An interesting text from several angles (based on a larger 2 vol.1860 collection for family use), touches on his grandfather William's famous 'The Retreat' asylum in York, with which Samuel continued to be involved, numerous early 19th century political issues and events, as well as Tuke family history itself. The fly leaf inscription rather adds character than detracts in my view. Apparently scarce in UK. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range. Size: 12.5 Cm x 19 .00 Cm. …