Item Detail
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William Pickering
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546
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(Helps, Arthur)
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Essays Written in the Intervals of Business
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8vo
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contemporary half morocco (worn, with library label)
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London
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1841
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First Edition
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[6], 128 p.
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19 cm.
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824 H369e 1841
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The author's second book, published by William Pickering, preceded only by the very rare "Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd," 1835. Among other literary pursuits, he edited Queen Victoria's "Highland Journals." Ruskin speaks of Helps' "beautiful quiet English."