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Besant, Walter Fifty Years Ago
London, England Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly 1888 Hard Cover Poor No Jacket 137 Plates and Woodcuts
Red cloth on boards. 268 pp. Owners name stamped many times in various places. Volume has separated frontis, loose pages, loose spine and is slightly cocked. Hinges weak, some pages open to spine. Rear black eps repaired with white tape at the gutter, at some time. Minor foxing throughout. All edges worn, with fading to spine. Now in protective wrap. [The line drawings throughout are charming, and that's probably the only reason this book is on line at all, that, along with the preface, which tells the author's wistfulness and nostalgia for times past, I empathize.] From the Preface: "It has been my desire in the following pages to present a picture of society in this country as it was when the Queen ascended the throne. The book is an enlargement of a paper originally contributed to 'The Graphic.' I have written several additional chapters and have revised all the rest. The chapter on Law and Justice has been written for this volume by my friend Mr. W. Morris Colles of the Inner Temple. There are histories of progress and advancement; there are contrasts; but there has not been offered anywhere, a picture of life, manners, and society as it was fifty years ago. [circa 1835] Meantime remember this. As nearly as possible, fifty years ago, the eighteenth century passed away. it died slowly; its end was hardly marked. King William the Fourth is dead. Alas! how many things were dying with that good old king. The steam-whistle was already heard across the fields: already in mid-ocean the great steamers were crossing against wind and tide: already the nations were slowly beginning to know each other: Privilege, Patronage, and the Power of Rank were beginning already to tremble, and were afraid: already the working man was heard demanding his vote: the nineteenth century had begun, We who have lived in it; we who are full of ideas; we who are all swept along with the full stream of it - we know not, we cannot see, whither it is carrying us."
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