Philosophical and Literary Pieces

viii, 390pp, [2]pp of publisher's ads. Maroon cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine, black and white photographic plate frontispiece. 8vo. Boards heavily mottled and discoloured. Spine lightly worn and soiled, <1cm splits in ends. Spine ends and corners moderately rubbed and rounded. Text block edges lightly tanned; text block dropped, volume loose. Front pastedown has lender's bookplate and sticker, front free endpaper has a tanned lending sheet, lender's barcode held with lightly tanned tape and a previous owner's name in pen. Lender's stamps on copyright page. Gutters occasionally stretched. Otherwise internally neat, clean and bright.