Author: Lucas, Edward Verrall and Charles L. Graves
Title: Wisdom While You Wait, Being a Foretaste of the Glories of the Insidecompletuar Britanniaware
Description: Isbister & Co. London, 1903. First Edition, Softcover. Fair Condition. A humorous publication from the early 1900's purporting to advertise the volumes of a fictitious encyclopaedia (perhaps lampooning the Encyclopaedia Britanicca) with amusing articles on the various proposed volumes; spoof advertisements inside the covers & with black & white illustrations throughout. An early example of late Victorian satire. Tipped-in publisher's advert. for a hardback limited edition at front. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 95 pages. spine worn away but binding still tight. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. no Dust Jacket as published.. Black titles front. red card covers fragile & badly edge-worn with rear cover detsached but present. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Humour; Satire; Victorian Satire; Victorian Humour; Britain/UK; 1900-1920; Fiction. Inventory No: 4646.

Keywords: BZDB227 Humour/Fiction/Satire/Victorian Satire/Victorian Humour Humour; Satire; Victorian Satire; Victorian Humour; Britain/UK; 1900-1920; Fiction. Unbranded Edward Verrall and Charles L. Graves Lucas Wisdom While You Wait, Being a Foretaste of the Glor


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