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c1890 A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age
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Description
Early Edition, Leather Binding
Full calf leather prize binding with attractive gilt tooling to spine. Illustrated with many lovely black and white in text illustrations. Samuel Carter Hall was intimate with most of the well-known celebrities of his day. This book contains biographical monographs and intimate reminiscences of over 120 writers, artists and actors, including Thomas Moore, Maria Edgeworth, John Banim, Charles Maturin, Richard Lalor Shiel, John Constable, William Carleton, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Wlliam Godwin, Jeremy Bentham, Washington Irving, Walter Savage Landor, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Southey and many others. The third edition.
Condition
In a full calf binding. Externally, there is some wear to the extremities, particularly to the spine which is faded and becoming detached. The spine label is chipped and both boards are also faded. The front and rear hinges are strained but holding. The binding is tight and firm and both covers are attached. Internally, the book is clean and bright apart from some isolated spotting affecting the front and rear end papers only.
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