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    By Charles Kingsley
    London   Macmillan
    7" by 5" vi, 469 pp.
    A smart Macmillan edition of Kingsley’s Two Years Ago delivers a Victorian tale of public health, duty, and reform, rebound in full green calf.
    By Charles Kingsley

    1906 Two Years Ago

    London   Macmillan
    7" by 5" vi, 469 pp.
    A smart Macmillan edition of Kingsley’s Two Years Ago delivers a Victorian tale of public health, duty, and reform, rebound in full green calf.
    £140.00
    : 0.5kgs / : 980H17
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    Leather Binding

    Bound in a full green calf binding with gilt, with gilt initials to lower corner of front board "C. C. W."

    This is a socially charged Victorian novel exploring themes of public health, duty, and reform, set against cholera epidemics and the Crimean War.

    Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) was an English clergyman, professor, and novelist, best known for The Water-Babies and his historical works. He was a prominent Christian Socialist and served as chaplain to Queen Victoria.

    Condition

    Bound in a full green calf binding with gilt. Externally, very smart. Slight fading to extremities and spine. One or two slight handling marks to boards. Previous owner's contemporary inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots to first and last few leaves.

    Very Good Indeed

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