The Old Man; or Ravings and Ramblings round Conistone

Beschreibung

First edition. Small Octavo (165mm. ) Pp. [3] iv vi, [1] 23-146. Plates [8] including a frontispiece. Errata at the foot of p.vi. Contents clean. The [Preface] is signed (printed) A.C.G. Yewdale Bridge, May21st,1849. Publisher's fine ribbed dark green cloth over boards, the covers with floral designs in blind. Title lettered directly in gilt on the spine. Yellow endpapers with the ink signature of a previous owner, and shelf numbers etc; in ink and pencil. A very good plus copy.The Author Alexander Craig Gibson (1813-1874) was born at Harrington Cumberland. Antiquary. MRCS 1846. He was from his youth a contributor to newspapers, He also wrote a number of other books the one offered here being his first separate book, chapters of which had appeared in the ' Kendal Mercury'. For more details of Gibson see ODNB. Sutton, Bibliotheca Lancastriensis, p.25.

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Titel

The Old Man; or Ravings and Ramblings round Conistone

Verlag

London: Whittaker and Co. Kendal; J. Hudson. 1849.

Einband

Hardcover

Zustand

Very Good