Description: 1788 FIFTH EDITION, 3 COMPLETE VOLUMES, THE HISTORY OF SANDFORD & MERTON BY THOMAS DAY. The set consists of all the parts with its original leather boards and spines. Quarter leather bound hardcovers with marbleized covers. This is one set you know is old by just looking at it. The books are complete, all original and unrestored. They are tight, no loose pages, no tears, and solid binding. This is the complete full set in three volumes. It is incredibly difficult to locate original unrestored works from this period, let alone finding sets that belong together. Please refer to the detailed pictures as additional reference for condition. "The History of Sandford and Merton (1783–89) was a best-selling children's book written by Thomas Day. He began it as a contribution to Richard Lovell and Honora Sneyd Edgeworth's Harry and Lucy, a collection of short stories for children that Maria Edgeworth continued some years after her stepmother died. He eventually expanded his original short story into the first volume of The History of Sandford and Merton, which was published anonymously in 1783; two further volumes subsequently followed in 1786 and 1789. The book was wildly successful and was reprinted until the end of the nineteenth century. It retained enough popularity or invoked enough nostalgia at the end of the nineteenth century to inspire a satire, The New History of Sandford and Merton, whose preface proudly announces that it will "teach you what to don't".
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Leather
Place of Publication: London
Non-Fiction Subject: None
Publisher: John Sotckdale
Subject: Children's
Year Printed: 1788
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Special Attributes: None
Fiction Subject: Action & Adventure
Region: United Kingdom
Original/Reproduction: Original
Author: Thomas Day
Topic: Classics
