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Advice to Young Men and (incidentally) to Young Women. in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen or a Subject. BRIGHT COPY OF THE FIRST ISSUE IN PERIOD BINDING
by COBBETT William
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Printed by R. Bensley, Andover, for the Author, 183 Fleet Street,, 1829. 12mo., First Edition, First Issue, some light and inoffensive age-staining, three leaves (B7-B12) a little loose; attractively bound in contemporary tan diced calf, boards framed in gilt and blind, back with flat gilt bands, second compartment with red leather label lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled with floral spray in blind, brown endpapers, sprinkled edges, a very good, bright, crisp copy in wholly unrestored period binding. First Issue, printed by Bensley [not Mills Jowett Mills], collected from the original fourteen monthly parts, unpaginated, in 355 numbered paragraphs. THE FIRST ISSUE IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Pearl 171.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41548
- Title
- Advice to Young Men and (incidentally) to Young Women. in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen or a Subject. BRIGHT COPY OF THE FIRST ISSUE IN PERIOD BINDING
- Author
- COBBETT William
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed by R. Bensley, Andover, for the Author, 183 Fleet Street,
- Date Published
- 1829
- Keywords
- literature, cobbett, william cobbett, advice to young men
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Leaves
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- Gilt
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- Crisp
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- First Edition
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 12mo
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