Present Apprentice Added Franklins Way by Tegg Thomas (4 results)

1st Edition. A nicely bound first edition of this popular book of advice to young men. weight: 0.8 lb. Very good, light wear to corners and spine ends, front inner hinge weak. Engraved frontis, engraved half-title page. 16mo., 13.5x10.5x2.5 cm. xvi, 400 pp. Contemporary 1/2 brown leather over marbled boards,gilt spine decorations, all edges gilt.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd ed. Frontis, xiv, [4], 381p. With an additional engraved vignette title. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt device and border decoration to both boards and pictorial gilt decoration to spine. Aeg. Armorial bookplate to inside front cover dated 1862. Modest wear to spine ends and possibly lacking front endpaper else a very good, superior copy of an uncommon title.

Illustration preceding front.; occasional sl. spotting. Orig. red cloth; spine faded, sl. rubbed. Presentation label on leading f.e.p., from the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights to Albert-Enoch Horton, on his being bound apprentice to his father. A code of morals for the use of young men upon their entrance into the world. Including a moral and physical thermometer, charting the progress of temperance (health, wealth, happiness, &c.) and intemperance (fighting, lying, swindling, murder, &c.).

Condition: Very Good Plus. Book measures 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. xvi,400pp, 1pp booklist, engraved frontis,engraved title, printed title. Bookplate '' To William Winn on his being bound Apprentice to George Gordon Citizen & Spectacle Maker of London ''. Bound in original publishers blind stamp and gilt cloth. Binding in very good clean bright condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A very nice copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.