internally super clean and bright with owner's inked name and date 1955 to first front endpaper
several surface marks in places on boards including a light partial ring stain on final volume
slightly soiled with light rubbing at extremities
Publisher's black cloth with the excellent
The former Manchester United and Northern Ireland star died at the age of 59 in 2005 due to illnesses linked to alcoholism
My Pocket Book; or, Hints for "A Ryghte Merrie and Conceitede" Tour, in quarto; to be called "The Stranger in Ireland" in 1805. By a Knight Errant trains internally super clean and brightLondon: printed for Ventnor, Hood, and Sharp (et al), 1808. A new edition. 8vo (18 x 12 cms); pp xxxii, 228; folding aquatint frontispiece and four plates, somewhat browned by offsetting, also titlepage. Contemporary half calf, rebacked, corners well rounded and worn, edges rubbed. A burlesque on Sir John Carr's "Stranger in Ireland" that resulted in a libel action that the publishers won.