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Village Dialogues. Between Farmer Littleworth Thomas Newman Rev. Mr. Lovegood and Others. Thirty-First Edition with Entirely New Dialogues and Enlargements and the Final Corrections of the Author. IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS
18366977Printed for Thomas Tegg Cheapside; R. Griffin & Co. Glasgow; and Tegg Wise & Co. Dublin 1836. 3 vols. 8vo. with an engraved portrait of the author and 19 engraved plates; publisher's original boards cloth backs paper labels labels worn and faded but most lettering just legible uncut boards lightly soiled and age-marked corners lightly bruised long split in lower joint of third volume but all bindings entirely sound a very good clean entirely unrestored set in scarce and fragile binding. In line with the convention of the period all the plates in each volume are placed together at the front since it was intended that the publisher's binding should be replaced on purchase by a house family or other 'style' binding. Accordingly each volume has the 'Directions to Binder' leaf indicating the proper position of each plate. COPIES IN THE ORIGINAL BINDING AND IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE Printed for T[homas] Tegg, Cheapside; R. Griffin & Co., Glasgow; and Tegg, Wise & Co., Dublin, hardcover
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