Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life. TWO VOLUMES
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1878. Eleventh Edition. Three-quarter leather. Two vols. 8vo. Pp. xii, 501; x, 496, index. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Illustrated with steel engravings. 3/4 blue leather over blue boards. Spines lettered in gilt, five raised bands with gilt decorated compartments. Very Good, owner name, spines and outer hinges rubbed, front joint of first volume starting, leather flaking, edgewear, neatest pencil note to rear endpaper. Very Good. Item #10104
Kingsley was a priest, historian, university professor, social reformer, novelist and poet, perhaps best known today for the children's book The Water-Babies.
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