Author: Sir Arthur Helps
Title: Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereo
Description: London , Pickering, 1852. First edition. Cloth. A fascinating two-volume Pickering first edition from Sir Arthur Helps. The edition is introduced by the author, who remarks that no one but those who have known intellectual society and then been deprived of it can truly appreciate the intense relief of discovering it again. In the vein of preserving for posterity this treasured discourse, Helps chronicles the learned discussions of his friends on such diverse subjects as truth, conformity, despair, greatness, education, public life, reading, criticism, the state of the poor, government, and slavery. The discussions make for enlightening reading, both in a Victorian and a contemporary light. With h half-titles and publisher's catalogue. In a cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing in places. Slightly bumped the extremities. Front hinge slightly strained. internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Bookplate of 'Frank Austin & Mrs Ashwell' to both front pastedowns; inscription 'Lucy Ellis, from.. her brother' dated 1893 to both blank preliminaries Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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