1905 E Phillips Oppenheim : The Master Mummer : Cigarette Advert on Vintage DJ

1905 E Phillips Oppenheim : The Master Mummer : Cigarette Advert on Vintage DJThe Master Mummer By E. Phillips Oppenheim Published by Ward Lock & Co. Limited, London, undated [1905]. Hardback in an unusual dust jacket which is plain except for a cigarette advert for 'Richmond Gem' to the front panel. Also it is quite rare to find a dust jacket that has survived 120 years. Blue blind stamped boards and title in black to the spine. 8vo; 315 pages. CONDITION A good copy. The advertising jacket is missing a piece from the top of

In his youth

The public had always closed their eyes to the fact that children could be bought from their parents and sold to rich men and to continental brothels

and applied navigational techniques that relied on their ability to read the stars in the night sky

Complete in two volumes and with a slipcase

and numerous in text illustrations

Conservation

reissued twenty-five titles at sixpence each and offered the remainder stock of Books for the Bairns at inflated prices which did not find many sales

enclosed in a magnificent gold box

Illustrated with 38 plates

In June Montereul returned to France with Charles holding out false hopes of French diplomatic aid

(Location  : Scotland

Sir Henry Wotton