Martin F. Tupper — Proverbial Philosophy
London , T. Hatchard, 1853. Cloth. Martin Farquhar Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy, a long series of didactic moralisings composed in a lawyer's chambers in Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, during 1836. Fourteenth edition. With a portrait of the author to frontispiece and a publisher's catalogue to rear. In publisher's original cloth-covered binding. Externally, sound with slight shelfwear and bumping, and fading to spine. Slight straining to front hinge. Internally, firmly bound, bright and clean with just the odd spot. Bookseller's blind-stamp to front free endpaper. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .