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The Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, vols. 1 & 2 bound together (of 3)
de The Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor
- Usado
- good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good
- Librería
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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London: Printed for the Society, 1802. Hardcover. Good. 2 volumes in one, the first volume being the Third Edition, published 1802, the second volume apparently the first edition, 1800. (We do not have the third volume). 8vo, old leather-backed marbled boards, pp. (xxiv) 283 (13), 368, 4. Condition is good to very good, some wear and straining to joints, light rubbing, marbled paper rubbed and some paper missing from corners and edges, contents very good and clean. Accounts of various ways in which the poor can be helped; there are about 100 such articles and tracts, with a large variety of authors and topics, with advice and accounts on cooking (including the making of soups and breads), cleaning, mining, farming, considerations of rent and tenancy, observations of cottage life and medical assistance, etc. Typical title: 'Extracts from an account of a female friendly society at Empingham in the county of Rutland' RARE. A third volume was published in 1802 -- we don't have it.
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- Librería
- Common Crow Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- C000028674
- Título
- The Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, vols. 1 & 2 bound together (of 3)
- Autor
- The Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Printed for the Society
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1802
- Palabras clave
- economics, england, history
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- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Marbled boards
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
