Martin F. Tupper — Proverbial Philosophy

London, T. Hatchard, 1853 . Leather. The fourteenth edition of this popular collection of poetry by bestselling writer Martin Farquhar Tupper, in a full morocco binding. The fourteenth edition. In a full black morocco binding, with a gilt to fore edge.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece.A poetry collection by Martin Farquhar Tupper, an English poet and novelist who was one of the most widely-read English-language authors of his day.This volume was a bestseller in the United Kingdom and North America for several decades, and contains a long series of didactic moralisings composed in a lawyer's chambers in Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, during 1836. In full morocco. Externally, very smart. Slight rubbing to head and tail of the spine, and to joints. Blind stamp to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Ink inscription to first blank. Damp stain to frontispiece. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .