A Present for an Apprentice: Or, A Sure Guide, to Gain Both Esteem and Estate; with Rules for His Conduct to His Master and in the World

by Sir John Barnard

$450 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1788. 18mo 13.5cm . Contemporary brown leather, with 5 gilt rules to spine; plain endpapers; i -iv 5 -80, 8 pp; 4 pages of publisher's ads at rear. A straight, sound copy, leather rubbed, with occasional spots of foxing, but largely tight and clean: Very Good. A compendium, intended for young apprentices and indentured servants, of ...practical hints on everyday subjects...imbued with

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