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Stories from Real Life; Compiled with a View to the Moral Improvement of All Classes

Fitchburg: S. & C. Shepley, 1848. First Edition. Miniature (11.5cm). Red publisher's cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, all edges gilt; yellow coated endpapers; 158,[2]pp; frontispiece of "The Indian Hunter," engraved title page. Sound and tight, though with slight cracks to cloth over rear joint, rubbed at edges, minor foxing: Very Good.

Stories of Victorian morality and sentiment—including a miller's maid beset by a thief who traps him in the mill equipment—with occasional discussions of class consciousness: "let us never acknowledge that worst of all tyrannies, an oligarchy of mere wealth. A man of enlightened mind and virtuous principles is my equal, whatever be his occupation, and whether his hand be hardened by the blacksmith's hammer, or soiled by the ink of the learned professions..." (95).

Price: $150.00

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