Cooper Gent, and Other Sketches: from "The Country Parson's Visits to His Poor"
by Bouchier, Barton
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1859. Hardcover. Good -. 180 p., frontispiece and 2 leaves of plates: illustrations; 15 cm. Black leather spine with marbled paper over boards. Five spine compartments between gilt rules with gilt-tooled spine title in second compartment. All page edges speckled black. Publisher's advertisements on endpapers. Note on p. 7 states: "The following are three of the four Memoirs which constitute the first series of "My Parish; or, The Country Parson's Visits to His Poor," by Rev. Barton Bouchier. No date of publication. The imprint includes: New York, 375 Broadway. The American Sunday School Union was at this New York address from 1857 to 1859. This title was listed in American Sunday School Union catalogues from Jan. 1859 to at least 1893. Contents: Cooper Gent -- George Elliott -- On the Death of an Idiot-Girl -- Mary How. Scarce. In Good- Condition: front board is detached but present; cover is rubbed, with minor loss of leather at ends of spine; front free endpaper detached but present; pages are clean and tight.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
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- Title
- Cooper Gent, and Other Sketches: from "The Country Parson's Visits to His Poor"
- Author
- Bouchier, Barton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- American Sunday-School Union
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1859
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- Children's Books; Religion & Philosophy;
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