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The Clockmaker; or the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville
by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
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London, Richard Bentley, 1738. First Edition Second Series: marbled paper covered boards, (hardback) , 7.75 x 4.75 inches approx. , some scuffing to background, rebacked, oxblood coloiured leather to spine and corners tastefully tooled with gilt, banded spine, title in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edge marbled but browned, iv, 378 pages, some foxing, fully readable, a treasury of comment about many things including chapters entitled Slavery, Talking Latin, Shampooing the English, Canadian Politics, Travelling in America etc. A little weakness to hinges, generally very good. .
Synopsis
Thomas Chandler Haliburton was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1796. He studied at King’s College and was called to the bar in 1820. He practised law in Annapolis Royal and represented that constituency in the provincial assembly from 1826 to 1829. Named a judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in 1829, he was elevated twelve years later to the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. Haliburton began his writing career as a historian. In the 1830s he turned to humorous and satirical fiction to express his Tory opinions on political and social questions. In 1835 he contributed to Joseph Howe’s journal The Novascotian a series of satirical sketches entitled “Recollections of Nova Scotia.” Their popularity led him to expand them into The Clockmaker; or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville (1836). He published a second series of sketches in 1838 and a third in 1840. In 1856 Haliburton retired and moved to England, where he represented Launceston in the House of Commons from 1859 to 1865. Thomas Chandler Haliburton died in Isleworth, Middlesex, England, in 1865. From the Paperback edition.
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- The Clockmaker; or the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville
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- Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
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- Hardcover
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- London, Richard Bentley, 1738
- Keywords
- Compendiums, Antiquarian Books, Slavery, Literature,
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