Pious Reflections for Every Day of the Month; To Which is Prefixed The Life of the Author by Fenelon - 1819

Manchester: G. Nicholson. Fair with no dust jacket. 1798. Hardcover. Miniature format (app. 84 x 50 mm) full contemporary leather. Boards detached, included. First signature detached, binding split. ; 64mo 3" - 4½" tall; 129 pages .

London: Thomas Richardson, 1830. Small volume, 4 1/4 X 2 3/4; Red leatherette bound, cover edges worn, otherwise very good.. 124 pages.

Ludlow: G. Nicholson. Good. 1799. Hardcover. Miniature format (app. 84 x 50 mm) full contemporary leather, red leather spine label. Outer hinges cracked, leather rubbed, corners bumped/frayed. PO name. Minor scattered foxing. ; 64mo 3" - 4½" tall; 129 pages .

Ludlow: G. Nicholson. Fair. 1798. Hardcover. Miniature format (app. 84 x 50 mm) full contemporary leather, black leather spine label. Outer hinges cracked, leather rubbed, corners bumped/frayed, spine ends chipped. PO name. Minor scattered foxing. ; 64mo 3" - 4½" tall; 129 pages .

London: William Darton and Son., [c.1820]. 32mo. (10.7cm x 6.9cm). Attractively bound in contemporary black morocco with red, yellow, green and blue leather onlays and decoration in gilt. All edges gilt. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece of Fenelon and an additional decorative plate depicting urns and foliage. Contemporary bookseller's ticket for Philp & Evans of 29 Clare St., Bristol to the front pastedown. 127pp. A very good copy, the binding square and secure with a little cracking to the front hinge, rubbing to the extremities of the boards and some wear to the leather onlays. The contents with some spotting to the decorative engraved plate and light scattered foxing to the preliminary pages are otherwise in very good order. An uncommon pocket-sized edition of this devotional work translated from the French of the Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer François Fenelon, published by the well-known William Darton. Only one institutional copy is recorded globally by… Read More