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Author:
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Various Authors
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The Working Bee; or, Caterer for the Hive. Containing a great variety of interesting articles, calculated to blend instruction with amusement.
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Description:
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Book is Good Half-Leather binding, First Edition,
Printed at the Caxton Press, by Henry Fisher, London, 1822. Here is a lovely old collection of tales, which are bound in a single volume, but I'm guessing might have been issued as weekly or monthly parts in the fashion of the day. Nevertheless, the pagination and numbering of the signatures suggests these leaves were always intended to be bound up together. Engraved frontis dated 1822 is the only date. Curiously, the book is numbered in columns, two to a page, hence 1536 columns. What a lovely old worn book this is! Perfect patina of ages on the half-leather binding, lots of chips and smoothed and worn away bits tell their tale. Front hinge is hanging by a thread, so trip to the book doctor needed, but binding is supple and sound throughout and also back hinge solid. Usual handling marks in one so old, but pretty respectable, the paper is good quality and supple, not newsprinty at all. Edge-stain at top of frontis and title does not extend further in, no missing leaves, paper nice and dry smelling with that lovely O-O-O-L-D smell. With all its general knowledge, this must have been a great thing to have handy if you accidentally got thrown in a dungeon.
Size 8vo
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