Author: DYER, T. F. THISELTON
Title: Great Men at Play: Two Volumes
Description: London, Remington & Co. 1889, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 235mm Tall, 8vo. Book, Covers of both volumes have discoloured areas. Wear to extremities. Volume I has tape repair to front free endpaper, soiling to preliminary pages. Index. 337 pages. Volume II has tape repair to gutter of front pastedown. 341 pages. Index. Page edges of both volumes uncut and numerous pages in volume II unopened. Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Smoking Habits, Drinking Habits, Snuff Taking, Water Drinking, Wit, Humour, Angling, Walking, Duke of Wellington, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Lamb, Sydney Smith, History


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