Charles Sayle — The Ages of Man

London, John Murray, 1916. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of quotations from Charles Sayle, with the publisher's compliments. First edition. With the publisher's blind stamp "With Mr. Murray's Compliments" to the title page. With a frontispiece. A collection of important and inspirational quotations for each year in the life of a man, separated into eight sections being: infancy, boyhood, first period of youth, second period of youth, first period of manhood, second period of manhood, first period of old age, and second period of old age. With quotes from writers including: Shakespeare, Thomas Hood, Dante, Sir William Temple, Katharine Tynan Hinkson, and more. Compiled by Charles Edward Sayle, an English Uranian poet, literary scholar and librarian. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .