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Methuen & Co., 1905. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1905. First Published. 295 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Brown staining to pages throughout. Visible creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to rear board. Gilt lettering is bright and clear.

London: Methuen & Co, 1905. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Methuen's Colonial Library edition of this well-written and forthright view of the good and bad in England at the dawn of the 20th century. Stock toned, with sporadic foxing, occasionally heavy. Green cloth a little marked and dulled to spine. 12mo. 296pp + 40pp publisher's catalogue.

London: Methuen. 1905. 8vo, cloth boards, top edge gilt, pp 296, 40. Very good condn. 2nd impression. Boards.

London: Methuen & co, 1905. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Top edge gilt. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: xiv, 295 pages; 20cm. Subjects: England Description and travel.Australia Foreign relations England. England Foreign relations Australia. England Foreign public opinion, Australian. Guides. Topography. Foreigners.

London : Methuen & Co., 1905. Second edition. Octavo, publisher's gilt-lettered red cloth over boards (damp staining to boards, pastedowns and endpapers); a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free-endpaper for the Governor of Pentonville Prison 'To Major O. E. M. Davies, with best wishes from the Author, J. H. M. Abbott, August, 1908'; pp xiv, 296, 40 (publisher's catalogue, July 1907); although the condition of the book could only be rated as poor, loosely inserted is an interesting 4-page holograph letter (in fine condition) signed in full by Abbott to Major Davies at Pentonville, commenting in detail about his book, England, and prisons: 'it was a strange experience for me', writes Abbott about his observations of confinement, suggesting the benefits of 'soldiering in comparison', and asking Davies whether he should approach the Home Office in order to gain access to other such institutions. 'J. H. M. Abbott (1874 – 1953) was an Australian novelist and poet who was born… Read More