Caroline Fry — The Listener

London, James Nisbet & Co. 1856. Leather. A smartly bound eleventh edition of this collection of life stories and moral lessons from British writer Caroline Fry, complete in one volume. Eleventh edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, illustrated title page, and numerous in-text engravings. Throughout her life Fry collected and wrote down devotional meditations, prayers, poetry, and recounted moral lessons one might learn from the life stories of people she encountered in her travels across the English countryside. These notes were collected and published as The Listener, originally issued in two volumes. Written by Caroline Fry, a British Christian writer affiliated with the "High Church" in the Church of England. Bound in full crushed morocco with gilt. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor fading to the extremities. Light marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Minor age toning to the endpapers with contemporary ink inscriptions to the front endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .