Life & labour :. or characteristics of men of industry, culture and genius /
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)
Category
Books
Date
1887
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Nymans Estate, West Sussex
NT 3185093
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 474, 2 p. ;.19cm. Nymans' copy lacks advertisements. Provenance: inscribed by the author "With kindest regards and best love to Ernest Sington Samuel Smiles LLD. London 29 May 1896. Inscribed on half-title "Leonard Messel from Aunt Georgie". Provenance: armorial bookplate, motto Dirigat deus, lettered “Leonard Charles Rudolph Messel” [i.e. Leonard Messel (1872-1953)]. Binding: bound uniform with four other works by Smiles in half polished calf; brown marbled paper over boards, marbled endpapers; gold tops; title gold-lettered direct onto spine "Life and labour". Binder's stamp "John Bumpus ...".
Makers and roles
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)