The Life of James Davies, A Village Schoolmaster Sir Thomas Phillips
1850. No edition remarks. 193 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustration plates. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled. Book has slight forward lean. Some additional heavy marks and staining.