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    By Mrs. John Carver [Anne Rickards]
    Liverpool   Edward Howell
    8" by 5.5" 2-139pp
    The vanishingly scarce first edition of this posthumously published personal memoir. A limited edition, privately published work, of which only fifty copies were produced.
    By Mrs. John Carver [Anne Rickards]

    1908 Recollections of My Old Homes

    Liverpool   Edward Howell
    8" by 5.5" 2-139pp
    The vanishingly scarce first edition of this posthumously published personal memoir. A limited edition, privately published work, of which only fifty copies were produced.
    £125.00
    : 0.5kgs / : 980F22
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    Description

    Folding Maps, Leather Binding, Limited Edition, Very Scarce

    A very scarce work. A first edition, one of only fifty copies produced.

    A posthumously published memoir from Mrs. John Carver (Anne Rickards), in which she covers the various homes she lived in over the course of her life, between September 1817 and October 1883.

    She includes a description of the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in September 1830, when she was a teenager, and discusses her various homes in the Liverpool, Salford, and Cheshire regions.

    With later ink inscriptions and notations to the first thirty pages, possibly from a relation of the author. Inscription of G R Hughes to front pastedown.


    Condition

    In a half calf binding, with cloth covered boards. Light rubbing to joints, with light handling marks to front board. Inscription to front pastedown. Spotting to pastedowns and endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally bright. Neat restoration to head of leave B, not affecting text, with ink annotations and notations to the first thirty pages.

    Very Good

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