Strange Tales From Humble Life. by Ashworth, John - ca. 1880's

Philadelphia, PA: William S. Young. VG. 1874. Reissue. Hardcover. Reprint edition. 4" x 6", 167 page hardcover bound in black cloth with gold decorations and lettering on the spine. A Very Good copy. Tiny b umps to the corners. Fraying along the head of the spine. Some dust sp ots on the covers. Contents clean, tight, unmarked. .

Paperback. Very Good.

Legare Street Press, 2021. Paperback. Very Good. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Tubbs & Brook, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 188 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Loss of rear endpaper. Pages are mildly tanned throughout. Text is clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Book has a moderate forward lean. Noticeable water staining to rear bottom corner of board.

Manchester, England: Brook and Chrystal, 1884. Undated [1884]. First series, 114,000. Collected moral tales, stated as true stories, for children, illustrated with engravings. Royal blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and black, 188 pages plus publisher's ads. Covers rubbed, mainly at the extremities, with a small scuffed area to the front cover, good hinges, sound text block, long gift notation on preliminary blank, pages otherwise clean and unmarked.. Hard Cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Philadelphia: Henry Longstreth, 1884. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, separately paginated, blindstamped cloth, minor insect damage at spine. Ashworth was an author, lecturer, a manufacturer, and a non-conformist minister, and founder of the Chapel of the Destitute. STRANGE TALES is considered his chief work. Originally published as separate tracts, each tale here has its own pagination. These are true stories of people he met in his enterprises.

Toronto: Wesleyan Methodist Book-Room, 1869. Hardcover. Good. 466pp; Purple cloth boards, spine faded, boards faded & edgeworn, wear to spine ends & corners of boards, gift inscr. to FFEP, underlining to a few pages, foxing to a few pages, binding is sound, Good condition. True stories of morality and religion by the English champion of the poor and outcast & founder of the Chapel for the Destitute.

Toronto: printed at the Methodist Conference Office, 1875. Fourh Canadian Edition. hardcover. near very good. Octavo, green cloth binding with gilt spine titles and decorations. 468 pages. A couple of darkened spots on spine, else very good. Includes prefaces to the first English edition, and all four Canadian editions. Ashworth (8 July 1813 - 26 January 1875) was a preacher manufacturer, and author who establisheded the Chapel for the Destitute at Rochdale in England. "These narratives are interesting for the glimpses they give of the life of the poor of the manufacturing disstricts. Thye mostly relate incidents that had come to his knowledge during his work amongst the poor. Ashworth's intimate knowledge of the class he described makes his 'Strange Tales' particularly valuable." --Wikipedia. 040407A

Toronto: William Briggs, 1882. Fair hardcover; Blue cloth with Gilt lettering on spine. Some fraying. Binding tight. Some rubbing & other general wear. Good condition.. Fifth Canadian Edition. Original Cloth. Fair. 5 x 8".

Nabu Press, 2012-04-16. Paperback. Good. Paperback-**Volume Five**Cover has some wear, pages clean and in good condition inside.