Marsh miss catherine (2 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. No Dust Jacket. Circa 1880. 136pp. New paper cover. Corners of the first & last few pages are thumbed with some flaking but a good reading copy.

Fifteenth thousand. xi, [1], 314pp. With an additional engraved title page, engraved portrait frontispiece, and terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed and marked, with boards and spine dulled. Spotting to initial leaves and plates. The first published work of English philanthropist and writer Catherine Marsh (1818 â" 1912), a highly successful memoir of a Christian soldier borne from her concerns over the draft for the Crimean War. The biography sold 78,000 copies in its first year of publication; English Hearts and English Hands (1857), which she composed after witnessing the struggles of workers rebuilding the Crystal Palace, followed a similar structure, this time following the life of a navvy. Size: 8vo.…