PRACTICAL WISDOM ; OR, THE MANUAL OF LIFE. THE COUNSELS OF EMINENT MEN TO THEIR CHILDREN

Authors: Raleigh, Sir Walter

Burleigh, Lord

Sidney, Sir Henry (Earl of Stratford)

Osborn, Francis

Hale, Sir Mathew (Earl of Bedford)

Penn, William

Franklin, Benjamin

Categories: Conduct

Non-fiction

Children / Youth

Biography

Year: 1824

Publisher: Henry Colburn and Co.

Pagination: xii, [1-3]-336

Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.5 cm

City: London

Document Type: Book

Language: English

Printer: Shackell and Arrowsmith, Johnsons-Court, London

Preface: [v]-ix 'PREFACE.'

Other Content: [xi]-xii 'CONTENTS.'

Index: [331]-336 'INDEX.'

Marginalia: Front blank page [book-plate] 'BOUND BY | James Condie | PAISLEY.' (on yellow paper)

Binding: Brown, full calf. Front and back covers gilt-tooled decorative border with blind-tooled secondary border within. SPINE: [gilt/blind-tooled] '(decorative design) | 'PRACTICAL | WISDOM' (on black calf) | (decorative design) | (decorative design)'.

Edges: Trimmed, marbled

Notes:

Full title: PRACTICAL WISDOM ; OR, THE MANUAL OF LIFE. THE COUNSELS OF EMINENT MEN TO THEIR CHILDREN. COMPRISING THOSE OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH, LORD BURLEIGH, SIR HENRY SIDNEY, EARL OF STRATFORD, FRANCIS OSBORN, SIR MATHEW HALE, EARL OF BEDFORD, WILLIAM PENN, AND BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. WITH THE LIVES OF THE AUTHORS.