Self-help;. with illustrations of conduct and perseverance.
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)
Category
Books
Date
1877
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Speke Hall, Merseyside
NT 3151400
Summary
Bibliographic description
xviii, 415, [1]; 14 p. ; 8vo. Provenance: bookseller's blind embossed stamp on front endpaper: 'W. H. Smith & Son'. Manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "Adelaide Watt. 1878" [i.e. Adelaide Watt (1857-1921)]. Manuscript inscription in pencil in Adelaide Watt's hand on p. 1: "Lives of great men all remind us / We can make our lives sublime / And, departing, leave behind us / Footprints in the sands of time". Binding: nineteenth-century publisher's green cloth; gilt title on front cover and spine.
Makers and roles
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)