Author: Sir Walter Besant
Title: Fifty Years Ago
Description: London, Chatto & Windus, 1888. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this historical study of Britain in 1837 by the novelist and historian Sir Walter Besant. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, a title page vignette, forty-seven plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Collated, complete. An exploration of British life in 1837, including life in schools and universities, at home, in factories and mines, among the middle-classes, in the law and justice system, in the taverns and theatres, and with particular mention of London. This social history gives an interesting late nineteenth-century perspective on the early nineteenth-century in Britain. Written by Sir Walter Besant, an English novelist and historian. A thirty-two page publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light spotting to the first and last few pages and the odd small spot to the remainder of the text. Minor age toning to the extremities. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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