Author: Richard Pike [ed]
Title: Remarkable Blunders, Advertisements and Epigraphs
Description: London, John Heywood, c1880. First edition. Leather. A very scarce collection of humorous spelling mistakes and 'blunders' found in adverts and correspondences, bound in crushed quarter morocco. The first edition.Bound in crushed quarter morocco with cloth to the boards. This very scarce volume features a collection of humorous blunders and spelling mistakes found in correspondences, and a host of remarkable and bizarre advertisements, edited by Richard Pike. Undated, dated by copies held by the British Library. Institutional library binding with their blind stamp to the front, with the usual stamps and labels within. Bound in crushed quarter morocco with cloth to the boards, with a library blind stamp to the front. Externally generally smart with rubbing to the front joints, fading to the spine, the odd mark to the boards and a library location number to the tail of the spine. Library withdrawal label to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound with clean and lightly age toned pages. Library stamp and blind stamp to the title page. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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