The Recreation: MDCCCXLII. A Gift-Book for Young Readers: Embracing Such Subjects as are Particularly Fitted to Interest and Improve the Youthful Mind. Embellished With Engravings.

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£75 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

Edinburgh: John Menzies, London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842. [Children's] FIRST EDITION, scarce. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.x; [2]; 322; 6. With four engraved plates, a frontispiece, and vignette engraving. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to upper and spine. Pictorial gilt design to upper and spine, tooling in blind to both..... More

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