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Synopsis

Or, self help that was not all for self. some incidents in the life of sir mark knowles, barrister-at-law. by the author of 'a railway line to fortune,' 'tom knight,' etc. etc. fourth edition-twelfth thousand.

Item Description

Small 8vo. 7 x 4.75 inches. 96 pp. + 18 pp. publisher's catalogue. Bound in original red cloth, gilt, front boards with black block, including loom, and gilt block of the barrister and black titles, publisher's device on rear board. A little wear to extremities and spine lightly sunned. Flyleaves browned, but otherwise a very good clean copy. Illustrated by engraved portrait frontispiece, with facsimile signature and by text figures. Decorated by head and endpiece vignettes and by initials. Classic Victorian improving biography of Mark Knowles (b.1834), who rose from a poor weaver's family near Blackburn to become a barrister and temperance advocate. Little is known of the author, Harriet Carson; in his preface to the third edition of 1885, W. E. Burroughs states that she had become totally blind in her infancy. First published in 1884, the British Library and Oxford date this reprint of the fourth edition to 1892.