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The Percy Anecdotes, Original and Select, Humour
Sholto and Reuben Percy, Brothers of The Benedictine Monastery, Mont Benger (Byerly, Thomas and Robertson, Joseph Clinton) · New-York
- Author
- Sholto and Reuben Percy, Brothers of The Benedictine Monastery, Mont Benger (Byerly, Thomas and Robertson, Joseph Clinton)
- Date
- 1821
- Place
- New-York
- Publisher
- W.B. Gilley
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 16mo.(3.25" x 5") 177 + iii pp. Quarter brown leather with corners over paper boards. Spine mostly lacking. All edges speckled red. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with tiny loss to tips. Head and foot of spine chipped with loss, most of spine lacking outer layer of leather, spine still secure. Scattered foxing throughout, heaviest to front and rear of text. Boards lightly stained. Portrait frontispiece, engraved title page. Title page with small closed tear and tiny chip lacking to head of page. Neat pencil marginalia to several pages.
- Format
- Designed to be a 20 vol.set, this single volume would have sold separately, later to be bound and added to others to create a twenty volume set. The authors are printed as Sholto and Reuben Percy, Brothers of The Benedictine Monastery, Mont Benger, but are actually (Byerly, Thomas and Robertson, Joseph Clinton).
- Category
- Philosophy & Classics
- Record
- S.I.10077
The Percy Anecdotes, Original and Select, Humour. Sholto and Reuben Percy, Brothers of The Benedictine Monastery, Mont Benger (Byerly, Thomas and Robertson, Joseph Clinton). 1821. New-York: W. B. Gilley. 16mo.(3.25" x 5") 177 + iii pp. Quarter brown leather with corners over paper boards. Spine mostly lacking. All edges speckled red. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with tiny loss to tips. Head and foot of spine chipped with loss, most of spine lacking outer layer of leather, spine still secure. Scattered foxing throughout, heaviest to front and rear of text. Boards lightly stained. Portrait frontispiece, engraved title page. Title page with small closed tear and tiny chip lacking to head of page. Neat pencil marginalia to several pages. Designed to be a 20 vol.set, this single volume would have sold separately, later to be bound and added to others to create a twenty volume set. The authors are printed as Sholto and Reuben Percy, Brothers of The Benedictine Monastery, Mont Benger, but are actually (Byerly, Thomas and Robertson, Joseph Clinton).
Condition
Good
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