1862 Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography

Name: 1862 Alton Locke: Tailor and Poet
SKU: 859A63
Price: 44 GBP
Availability: InStock

Published: Cambridge Macmillan and Co.

Size: 7.5" by 5" Pagination: xxx, [2], 309, [1], [24]pp.

A new edition of this popular novel by celebrated author Charles Kingsley.

£44.00

weight: 0.5kgs / stock code: 859A63

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Description

Publishers' Original Binding

A new edition of this work, uncommon Macmillan edition. Originally published by Chapman & Hall in 1850. With a new preface.

Novel by Charles Kingsley written in sympathy with the Chartist movement, exposing the social injustices suffered by workers in the clothing trade and the trials and tribulations of agricultural labourers.

Charles Kingsley was a broad church priest of the Church of England as well as university professor, social reformer, author, &c. He is known for his work with Christian socialism and his friendship and correspondence with Charles Darwin.

SF Widdrington's bookplate to front pastedown, stamp to front free endpaper.

Condition

In the original publisher's full cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Externally very smart with light bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities, back strip darkened. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting scattered to leaves.

Overall: Very Good

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