Annals of the poor: containing the dairyman's daughter, the negro servant, and young cottager, &c. &c.

Author: 
Rev. Legh Richmond, A.M. [Rev. John Ayre, A.M.]
Publication details: 
London: J. Hatchard and Son, 187, Piccadilly. 1828. 'A NEW EDITION, ENLARGED AND ILLUSTRATED, WITH AN INTRODUCTORY SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR'. Printed by Ibotson and Palmer, Savoy Street, Strand.
£150.00
SKU: 3899

First appearance of biography of the author (pp. xi-xxviii) by his son in law, dated 'Islington, | Feb. 21st, 1828.' 12mo. Pages: xxviii + 360 + four pages of publisher's advertisements. Frontispiece portrait engraving of author by E. Finden from painting by Livesy; three engravings by Finden from drawings by R. B. Harraden. Nineteenth-century leather binding; marbled endpapers. Tight copy, but dusty and with staining, particularly to binding and prelims. Scarce in this edition; no copy in British Library. Dedicated to William Wilberforce.