A LETTER OF ADVICE TO HIS GRAND-CHILDREN, Matthew, Gabriel, Anne, Mary, and Frances Hale
by HALE, Sir Matthew
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good(+) for age
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Tunbridge Wells , Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Taylor and Hessey, 1823. 2nd corrected (1st-1816) . Tooled Leather. Good(+) for age. 10 cms x 17 Cms. xxv+182+(6, pub.list); possibly lacking a portrait, front gutter open but quite secure, front pastedown browned, front endpaper has groove across centre caused by a pair of facing wrinkles, text otherwise generally clean and tight but wrinkle across bottom front corner to p.7/8 and rear endpapers heavily wrinkled - all this wrinkling appears to be a binding effect; covers generally clean, top spinerubbed and slightly chipped, occ. surface and slight extremety rubbing, bright gilt lettered and gilt-dec.panelled spine with good label, gilt border lines and patterned tooling to both boards. As explained in the introduction this 2nd ed. is superior to the first in having been corrected and collated between three copies - Hale requested his eldest grandson Matthew to get each of his younger siblings to make copies themselves, specifying the small book format; the copies used each conformed to this exactly and were undoubtedly originals, though did not I think include the master copy, the 1816 edition was based on one copy alone and the fact it required correction suggests, maybe, that it was done by one of the youngest and contained copying errors (though the Introduction does not spell this out). Both editions now extremely scarce. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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- Bookseller
- Douglas Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008837
- Title
- A LETTER OF ADVICE TO HIS GRAND-CHILDREN, Matthew, Gabriel, Anne, Mary, and Frances Hale
- Author
- HALE, Sir Matthew
- Format/Binding
- Tooled Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good(+) for age
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd corrected (1st-1816)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Taylor and Hessey
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1823
- Size
- 10 cms x 17 Cms
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- education advice antiquarian 17th century fathers
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