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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Year 1848. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> The Title Page of the present small Volume has been purposely drawn up so fully explanatory of its contents, that the Author needs only further to state, for the satisfaction of all inquisitive people like himself, that the condition of his health rendered it necessary, combined with another equally pressing obligation, that he should leave London (which has been his temporary home so often, and, in all, so long), in the early part of the summer of 1847, and get away, for a time, into some less smoky and more field-environed city or town. He came to Hereford; and here, after securing some trifling share of work at his trade, which is that of a boot-closer, he recommenced, as a next proceeding, his old habit of seeking for such intellectual gratification as might be attainable within the new sphere where he was placed; and hence he began to peer about for such stray documents, books, or neglected bits of human history, as very few in his own humble walk in life seem to concern themselves s.