What a Word! Being an Account of the Principles and Progress of 'The Word War' Conducted in 'Punch,' to the Great Improvement and Delight of the People, and the Lasting Benefit of the King's English, with Many Ingenious Exercises and Horrible Examples
xii, 286pp, 8pp publisher's ads. Grey cloth-covered boards; green titles on spine. 12mo. Sun-faded spine especially base at spine head, rubbed corners and spine ends, quite cocked. Top text block edge tanned, remaining edges tanning and just starting to fox. Free endpapers starting to tan; pages ageing; gutters strained, volume quite loose. Otherwise internally neat and clean. Paper dust jacket sun-faded, has minor loss, 1cm closed tear at bottom, chipping to edges ,mirrors book damage, price clipped.