By Reuben and Sholto Percy
London   Frederick Warne and Co.
7" by 5" v, 990; (5), 988pp.
Very neat copy of these volumes reprinted verbatim to the original edition.
By Reuben and Sholto Percy

1868 The Percy Anecdotes: Collected and edited by Reuben and Sholto Percy. A Verbatim Reprint of the Original Edition. With a Preface by John Timbs.

London   Frederick Warne and Co.
7" by 5" v, 990; (5), 988pp.
Very neat copy of these volumes reprinted verbatim to the original edition.
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Leather Binding, Pleasing Copy

A verbatim reprint of the original edition. Originally published in forty monthly parts commencing 1820. With a preface by John Timbs. Dated from the University of Cambridge Libraries. Volumes begin 'Anecdotes of Imagination' and 'Anecdotes of Humanity'. Written by Reuben and Sholto Percy, pseudonyms for Thomas Byerley, an English journalist and Joseph Clinton Robertson, a Scottish patent agent, writer and periodical editor. Robertson was a political radical prominent in the early days of the working-class press and the Mechanics Institutes movement.

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In the original green half calf. Marbled edges, end-pages and boards. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. The odd mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with light spotting and age toning to the first and last few pages.

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