Item #24588 The Chimney Corner Companion - Being a Selection of the Most Interesting, Amusing, and Authentic Descriptions and Anecdotes of Men, Manners and Things Taken from the Best Sources in English Literature. Anonymous.

The Chimney Corner Companion - Being a Selection of the Most Interesting, Amusing, and Authentic Descriptions and Anecdotes of Men, Manners and Things Taken from the Best Sources in English Literature

1891, First Edition. London ; Printed For Knight And Lacey, Patternoster-Row. Finely bound in an exceptional example of a contemporary craft binding (late 19th century) . Half aniline calf over bright silk boards. Raised bands with the tooling continued onto both panels to give a clasp-tie effect. A superb copy. Impressively illustrated with a portrait frontis of Rev. Wilks and a series of additional engraved in-text features appropriate to each section or heading. Minor scattered marginal foxing. Inscribed to Wm. Bratley (? ) and dated 1891; 240 pages. Item #24588

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