CHAMBERS'S MISCELLANY OF USEFUL AND ENTERTAINING TRACTS
Book Details + Condition: William and Robert Chambers (Edinburgh, Scotland). First Edition, 1846. Hardcover with three-quarters leather binding and marbled boards. Woodcuts throughout. Includes Volume IX and Volume X. A collection of history, timely events and people, and literature, with contents including:
- Anecdotes of Serpents
- Natural Magic
- Shipwreck of The Medusa
- The Sculptor of the Black Forest
- Anecdotes of Ants
- Scottish Traditionary Stories
- Wood-Engravings
- A Story of the Factories
- Life of Henry IV, King of France
- Poems by George Crabbe
- Select Poetical Pieces of Sir Walter Scott
- And more.
Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; rubbing to marbled paper on boards; bumped spine ends; foxing to first few pages; interior is clean and free of markings.
