The Book to Keep the Spirits Up in Dull and Gloomy Hours by John Brighte
No Edition Stated. 238 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt titles and decoration to front. Publisher's adverts to front and rear. Pages are rather marked with pronounced tanning and foxing, plus thumbing. Foxing heaviest towards the start and end of the book. Bookseller's sticker to front pastedown. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper. Text block edges intensely foxed. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping and fraying to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Boards a little rubbed and marked overall. Gilt is bright. Book has a moderate forward lean.