Description: PRINTS BOOKS PHOTOGRAPHS MANUSCRIPTS CURIOSITIES - SCARCE PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR -ASHWORTH (John, English preacher, manufacturer, and author, 1813-1875).Strange tales from humble life.(Manchester): Tubbs and Brook, n.d. (but circa 1871, as per presentation inscription). vi, 378, [1, publisher's catalogue] pp. Illustrated with engraved portrait frontispiece (with added albumen photograph), and numerous full-page lithographs with tissue guards. Publisher's blind-stamped maroon cloth, with gilt decoration and blue / gilt lettering to upper cover and gilt lettering and decoration to spine. All edges gilt. Size: 8vo (22.5cm x 15.8cm).Good to Very Good condition. Binding pretty solid but just starting to strain in the gutter between pages 32 and 33. Light rubbing to cloth, including to head and foot of spine. Corners rubbed. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown (Robert J. Hayhurst). Scattered foxing and handling marks to some leaves, moderate in places. A couple of plates with rather more foxing than the others. Final as leaf foxed. Please ask if you require a more detailed condition report, or view gallery images closely.A presentation copy from John Ashworth, of series one and series two of his moralistic 'tracts', which were originally published separately and proved highly popular in the mid-Victorian period. There is an albumen photograph of the author tipped to one edge of the frontispiece portrait. key words:
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Year Printed: 1870
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Fiction Subject: Short Stories & Anthologies
Binding: Fine Binding
Original/Reproduction: Original
Author: John Ashworth
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Publisher: Tubbs and Brook
Place of Publication: Manchester
Special Attributes: Inscribed
