Illustrations of human life ... Second edition. In three volumes

by Robert Plumer Ward

$225 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough Street, 1838. Second edition, 12mo, 3 volumes, pp. viii, 356, 2 ; vii, 1 , 324; 4 , 301, 1 ; original gray paper-covered boards, printed paper spine labels; extremities rubbed, labels a little rubbed and darkened, text clean; all else very good. Bookplates of Anne Renier and F. G. Renier on pastedowns. Ward's fiction was largely didactic in nature. George Canning said that Ward's law books were as pleasant as

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