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Very Good. No Dj. Book 12 mo., hardcover, near fine in blue tweed boards with red trim and lettering. A rare edition. 351 pp. Victorian three-decker that depicts a poor honest and hard-working orphan whose story represents the paradigm of success available to even the lowliest at the time of the Industrial Revolution in England. In a narrative based on a true story the title character begins as a farm laborer is apprenticed to a tanner teaches himself to read in a squalid attic earns the trust of his employer becomes a tradesman and eventually rises to the position of capitalist and manufacturer. Along the way he marries well and he ultimately spends his declining years in serenity.
