1831 A orders Family Encyclopedia; Or, An Explanation Of Words And Things Connected With All The Arts And Sciences

A Family Encyclopedia; Or, An Explanation Of Words And Things Connected With All The Arts And Sciences

1831 Antique leather book.

Very old leather book with rag cotton paper pages. Good binding and no loose pages. Title embossed in gold metal on the spine. Original marbled paper for endpapers. This leather book is on the way to being 200 years old and was a well-used book showing signs of age and use detailed below. Good binding overall

The book's front end paper and subsequent 2 pages are wrinkled and partially loose as a result of lots of contacts being turned but the rest of the pages are solid. The leather shows expected signs of wear: bumped corners, scrapes, dings). Mild to moderate foxing to pages, smudges, 2 pages are wrinkled and have repairs, and other signs of use and age.

Antique hardcover leather book 5 1/2" x 8 3/4" x 1 orders 7/8"; 412 pages including index.

By George Crabb (1778–1851) "an English legal and popular writer.
He was educated at a school at Diss and under a private tutor. He began as a medical student but became an assistant to a bookseller. This he also shortly dropped to study for the ministry but experienced a sudden change in his religious views.
After his marriage, he became a classical master at Thorp Arch School, Yorkshire. In 1814 he entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford, as a gentleman commoner, and shortly thereafter published his oft reprinted Dictionary of English Synonymes. He graduated B.A. in 1821 and M.A. in 1822, with mathematical honors. He was called to the bar in 1829 and adopted the practice of conveyancer and chamber counsel, but on account of his shy manner was not very successful.
He authored several popular instruction books on German which passed through many editions, several legal publications, and he was also the author of dictionaries which obtained wide popularity."

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