Moral Tales

London: Blackie lacks all up to and including title page, so date and edition unknown, pale cloth with art nouveau decoration on spine and front cover, good reading copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket.

Philadelphia: Duffield Ashmead, 1867. Book. Near Very Good. Hardcover. New Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, publishers green cloth ruled in blind-stamp on covers and lettered and decorated in gold on spine. Contains the following stories: "Forester"; "The Prussian Vase"; "The Good Aunt"; "Mademoiselle Panache"; "Angelina, or L'amie Inconnue"; "The Good French Governess" and 'The… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Duffield Ashmead, 1867. Hardcover. Good. New edition. Blind-stamped and ruled green boards, gilt decorated spine. Original designs by Darley. Owner's gift inscription inked and bookplate on preliminary pages, tidelines on frontispiece edges, hinges and extremities cracked and worn, a good only copy.

UK: Blackie, 1908. New Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good ++/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. New Edition Circa 1905. Wonderful art neouveau cover designed by Talwin Morris' successor Archie C Campbell. Book is very good++ and bright and clean. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 11419###013387 … Read more about this item

Baldwin and Co., et al, 1846. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1846. New Edition. 438 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound leather with cloth covered boards. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracks to guttering throughout, with exposed netting. Water stains to occasional pages. Front endpaper is missing with inscriptions to rear. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, PA: Duffield Ashmead, 1867. Hardcover. Good. Original Designs by Darley . Handsome series binding. Sm. 8vo. Blue cloth with gild decorated spine, and original designs by "Darley". A handsome copy, signed "Julia Hamilton" on fep. Good+

London: Ward Lock half cloth with light rubbing, frayed tips, marbled boards rubbed, papered partds of fore edges rubbed back to the board, front hinge split and unattached to binding, small ink name to fep, book is tight and clean with only a few scattered spots of foxing mainly to closed edges, 528pp + adverts, undated, possibly about 1870. Half… Read more about this item

J. B. Lippincott & Co.. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Spine cracked. Slightly dampstained. (Vintage books, antique books, British literature, Irish literature)

George Routledge. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex library book, usual markings. Hardback rebound by library. Well kept copy but pages are stained round the edges due to age. The cover also has some wear but good otherwise.

Very Good. 1857 very nice book designs by Darley violet boards tight pointed corners several tales with page numbers starting over with each tale

London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1856. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1856 h/b described as New Edition complete in One volume with three plates, vi+438pp. Worn and marked green cloth covers with embossed design, gilt spine titling and design. Some foxing inside, heavy on a few pages. Gift dedication on fep, split at front pastedown.… Read more about this item

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-01-17. Paperback. Used:Good.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New. In their moral tales, writers such as Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth embraced explicitly didactic aims, seeking to instill normative moral behavior in their readers while entertaining them with vivid, emotional storytelling. In More's 'Tawney Rachel,' for example, a servant girl suffers severe consequences for succumbing to superstition; in Opie's 'The Black… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1866. Covers are detached but present. A little glue will do you!. Hardback. Worn but Complete.

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.