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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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Very Good. Book. 12mo-over 6¾-7¾" tall. Magnificent 3/4 brown leather binding with tooled bands on the spine, gilt lettering and marbled boards; painted marbled page edges and marbled end pages. Illustrated with steel engravings. Binding complete; boards with edges frayed; pages dusty with light age toning. Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) was a Scottish author and government reformer.
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Very Good. 8vo. 215pp. Or brown cloth with ornate embossed decoration and gilt title to spine. Somewhat edgeworn with all corners slightly bent, shelf wear to head and foot of spine. Originally published in 1860, this edition dates from approximately 1880. As persons contained in the book, who were still living at the time of original publication, died and their biographies became incomplete or inadequate they were dropped from subsequent issues. This volume contains 19 brief biographies including the following: James Watt, Robert Stephenson, Dr Arnold, Hugh Miller, Francis Jeffrey, Ebenezer Elliott, George Borrow, John James Audubon, William MacGillivray, John Stirling, Leigh Hunt, Hartley Coleridge, Dr Kitto, Edgar Allan Poe, Theodore Hook, Dr Andrew Combe, Robert Nicoll, Sarah Margaret Fuller and Sarah Martin.