Martin F. Tupper — Proverbial Philosophy

London, T. Hatchard, 1858. Leather. A smartly bound thirty-second edition of this collection of poetry from English writer Martin Farquhar Tupper. Thirty-second edition. With a portrait frontispiece. A bestseller in the United Kingdom and North America for several decades, this collection of poetry (which Tupper referred to as "rhythmics" rather than poetry) contains titles such as: Of Hidden Uses, Of Memory, The Dream of Ambition, Of Experience, and Of Truth in Things False, amongst others. Written by Martin Farquhar Tupper, an English poet and novelist who was one of the most widely-read English-language authors of his day. In the original full calf binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. Loss of the spine label with minor loss to the head of the spine. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot. A hand-coloured inscription to the front endpaper with the previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Good . Ill.: None. Good .