For
your consideration:
For
your consideration:
A
First Edition
of the First
Volume
Martin,
William, ed. Peter Parley’s annual:
Christmas
and New Year’s present for young people. London:
Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1840 [i.e., 1839]. 12mo (15 cm, 5.9"). Engr.
t.-p., vi, 378 pp.; 4 plts., illus.
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the interior images for enlargements.
the history and rules of
chess, are illustrated with a number of in-text steel engravings
and four engraved plates, one of which depicts a ship at sea in stormy weather.
• Faxon 108. Binding as above, paper scuffed and joints a touch
rubbed. Front free endpaper with owner’s name; front pastedown and fly-leaf
with pencilled notations. Frontispiece with small chip to outer margin, repaired.
Some instances of offsetting surrounding plates and illustrations, pages otherwise
clean. 
An
attractive, engaging little book.
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