Good Useful Man (7 results)

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Front., illus. Orig. purple pebble-grained cloth, boards blocked in blind, spine elaborately decorated & lettered in gilt; sl. dulled & marked. Bookseller's ticket of Noble, Boston, on leading pastedown. A nice copy. Copac records copies at LSE (volumes I & II) only; the BL has an incomplete run; OCLC records no further copies. The only auction record notes a copy selling in 1887. The first of only two volumes published of a monthly magazine dedicated to 'the elevation of man'. 'Our chief concern has been the social purification and advancement of society, consequently, we have advocated the principles, and enforced the claims of many moral movements, which aim at the diminution of error and the promotion of good'. From the collection of Robert Marshall, chemist, of Boston, Lincolnshire. …

[14], 669, [3 (adverts)] pp. P. 520 mispaginated as 502; 526 as 520; 527 as 526. Tables, pp. 520 - 526. 8vo: [a]^4 [-a1, an advert] b^4 B - 3U^4 [3X]^4 3Y^4 - 4Q^4. X2 missigned as K2. 7-1/8" x 4-1/2" Thomas Tryon's most influential work, inspired by Pythagoreanism and Hinduism as well as Jacob Bohme and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, advocates vegetarianism and a healthy diet by careful selection of food and drink as a way to live a long and happy life. He promotes animal welfare, ecology and pacifism and a belief that there was one original true religion of mankind. General binding wear. Early ownership signatures to ffep lined out. B4 with paper flaw at bottom, just affecting a couple words, but not the sense thereof. Rear paste-down with pencil notes. Very Good. Period full brown calf, with later rebacking to style. Maroon leather title label in second compartment 1st Edition (Bitting, pp 466- 467; Cagle 1029; ESTC R10677; Lowndes, p. 2716; Oxford, p. 43; Watt AUTHORS, 917; Wing T3200).…

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 118. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1849 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 118.…

First edition, first printing, of this popular formulary, cookbook, and medical advice manual. Contents include sections on domestic medicine, the diseases of infants and children, general rules for preserving health, a list of roots and herbs, the composition and use of various medical compounds, and "Indian recipes." A lengthy section entitled "Every Lady's Cook Book" contains brief rules and recipes for preparing everything from meats, poultry, game, fish, eggs, vegetables, pickles, ketchup, and gravies to soups, broths, fruits, jellies, bread, puddings, pies, cakes, and biscuits. At rear, appearing under such headings as "Ladies' and Gentlemen's Polite Teacher," "Hints to Young Ladies," and "Hints to Young Men," is a range of practical advice, with specific sections given to "Rules of Conversation," drawing and embroidery instruction, as well as rules for style and dress. Copyright was taken in the names of H.B. Skinner and J.B. Hall. Several subsequent editions of this popular title appeared over the next five years, all published in Boston. SABIN 81600. LOWENSTEIN 429. CAGLE & STAFFORD 27. OCLC 982308843. 12mo. Gathered signatures, side-stitched, lacking printed pictorial wrappers. Laid into later plain stiff blue paper wrappers. Foxing and staining to titlepage. Text tanned, scattered foxing, a few marginal annotations in pencil, minor discoloration and nicks, small clipping mounted to top of p.5. Good. …

Second edition, 8vo (197 x 122 mm), xiii, [3], 254, [2]pp., with a half-title and a final advertisement leaf, engraved frontispiece, one engraved plate, endpapers renewed, later full panelled calf, a very good copy. This was self-evidently an expansion and editing of Trowell's 'New Treatise of Husbandry', originally published in 1738. Provenance: Ink signature of 'Thomas Davis, 1792' to half-title. Rothamsted, p.149; Blanche Henry, 1442.…

First edition of this pioneering defence of ethical vegetarianism, "the first English work in which animals were said to have rights" (Perkins, p. 41). A Gloucestershire-born former shepherd and London merchant, Tryon (1634-1703) developed his religious and dietary philosophy under the influence of Jakob Böhme, having earlier been an Anabaptist. Combining mystical philosophy with practical dietary advice, the work advocates vegetarianism, temperance, and avoidance of tobacco. Tryon asserts that by killing animals, humans become more violent. It connects animal rights with English liberty, linking the rights of animals to those of people against the arbitrary power of the sovereign. The work went through several editions and inspired a celebratory poem by Aphra Behn; Tryon's writings encouraged Benjamin Franklin's youthful adoption of vegetarianism. Bitting, pp. 466-7; Cagle 1029; ESTC R10677. David Perkins, Romanticism and Animal Rights, 2003. Octavo (178 x 118 mm), pp. [16], 669, [3]. Contemporary panelled calf, blind floral cornerpieces. Nineteenth-century ownership signature of Thomas D. Wood to front free endpapers; pencilled signature of Chris Dyke dated 1821 to p. 434 and rear free endpaper; occasional early ink underlining and sidelining and a couple of annotations. Calf abraded, paperclip rust mark to first few leaves, a couple of headlines trimmed, small chip to leaf 4M2 with loss of a few letters, light worming at foot not affecting text: a very good copy.…