The Philosophy of Disenchanment
Belford, Clarke & Company, January 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Fair / No Jacket. Item #L019986
ISBN: B00FLGQT94
A fair+ copy in leather/boards (spine perished/covers detached). small 8vo [4],233pp Author's rare second book; series of six chapters on happiness, contentment , satisfaction and their antonymical counterparts. BAL #17129 (notes only 782 copies printed). Bound in 3/4 brown morocco over dark blue cockerell boards, spine apparently gilt-stamped with raised bands; matching cockerell endpapers, top edge extra gilt (exterior as noted; interior still very sound, but bound without the 16 pages of advertisements as called for in BAL; 2 blanks at rear still present).
Price: $25.00