Catherine Marsh Intro (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Original brown cloth, stamped gilt lettering, 324 pp + ads, no illustrations. Hardcover, fair. Minimally marked ex-library (only a rubber stamp on paste down front end paper, no numbers on spine, etc. ). A few drop marks on cloth, corners bumped with cardboard exposed there, ¼ inch chip off head of spine and adjoining portion of front board, several lesser nicks. Internally, missing portion of paste-down front endpaper and free front endpaper, (starts with title page) , previous owner's signature (in pencil) on top edge of title page, foxed, front hinge cracked, additional hinge cracks between several of the gatherings; decent as a reading copy. Per intro, "This little book contains a series of facts and incidents which occurred during an intercourse of eighteen months with above five hundred working-men and their families in the town of Shrewsbury." The author visited them both at work and in home, and recorded the results of each encounter in a series of letters contained in this book, which presents a realistic look at the working class from a Christian perspective (cf Charles Dickens). Religion; sociology.