A Letter of Advice to his Grand-children, Matthew, Gabriel, Anne, Mary, and Frances Hale. by Hale, Sir Matthew

London: Taylor and Hessey, 1823. 2nd corrected (1st-1816) . Tooled Leather. Good(+) for age. 10 cms x 17 Cms. xxv+182+(6, pub.list); possibly lacking a portrait, front gutter open but quite secure, front pastedown browned, front endpaper has groove across centre caused by a pair of facing wrinkles, text otherwise generally clean and tight but wrinkle across bottom front corner to p.7/8 and rear endpapers heavily wrinkled - all this wrinkling appears to be a binding effect; covers generally clean, top spinerubbed and slightly chipped, occ. surface and slight extremety rubbing, bright gilt lettered and gilt-dec.panelled spine with good label, gilt border lines and patterned tooling to both boards. As explained in the introduction this 2nd ed. is superior to the first in having been corrected and collated between three copies - Hale requested his eldest grandson Matthew to get each of his younger siblings to make copies themselves, specifying the small book format; the copies used each conformed to… Read More