London: Strahan & Co. Ltd, 1881. First Edition. Half-Leather. Near Very Good. Short Stories, Pulpit Addresses, Character Sketches, Poems, Papers, Children's Papers suitable for Christians to read on Sunday. With many B&W In-Text illustrations. Also Includes 26 Full-Page Plate illustrating "Pilgrim's Progress" and an illustrated Article "John Bunyan and His Dream". Frontis illus. Bunyan dreaming. Contemporary Brown Half-Leather Binding with 5 Raised Bands on spine. Gilt Hatched Decoration & Horizontal lines on spine with Gilt Title in 2nd compartment. Grey pebbled cloth-covered boards and Leather Corners. 416 Pages, 1.8 Kilos, 11 1/4" Tall. Gift inscription, dated 1881, on blank preliminary page. No other inscriptions. Some fading to cloth and small splashes of black on the back. A little insect damage on centre of fore margin, from endpaper to page 19 and at the back fore margin from endpaper back to page 402, with only a single very small hole from there to page 305. Heavy book, weighs 1.8 Kilos so Shipping Outside UK will be extra. Size: 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" tall

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Bookseller: Cornish Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 017106
Title: THE DAY OF REST : Illustrated Journal of Sunday Reading
Format/Binding: Half-Leather
Book Condition: Used - Near Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Strahan & Co. Ltd
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1881
Keywords: RELIGION/CHRISTIANITY/SUNDAY READING/ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS/MAGAZINES & PERIODICALS

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