Author: Smiles, Samuel
Title: Life and Labour. Or Characteristics of Men of Industry, Culture and Genius.
Description: John Murray, 1887. Hardcover. 474p + 2. Original dark plum cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, blind-stamped coat of arms to front cover. First edition. Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) had achieved wide fame with his 1859 work Self-Help, which promoted self-reliance and self-improvement, and has been seen as one of the defining texts of the Victorian era. He developed his theme with several later books - this was the last. The book is clean, tight, unmarked and with perfect original brown endpapers with a binders label - W. Bone & Son, Fleet Street London. Top edge dusty and a very few minor marks on pages. See scans. . Near Fine

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