The Successful Merchant: The Story of the Life of George Moore, Merchant and Philanthropist

by Samuel Smiles

$75 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1878 . First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XVI, 460pp. Original burgundy-stamped teal cloth with gold lettering on spine and black lettering on front cover. Frontispiece portrait protected with a tissue guard. Remarkable work on the life of George Moore. The third child in a family of five, George Moore served an apprenticeship in a Drapers in Wigton before going to London to seek employment.

• Binding: Hardcover

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