SAM SLICK'S WISE SAWS AND MODERN INSTANCES; Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented.
London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough Street. No Date [circa 1860]. Reprint. Octavo, original purple cloth decorated in gilt and blind on spine and front panel, the titles reverse-blocked in gilt. (vi) + 329 pp, [2] pp ads at rear, frontispiece with tissue guard, pale coated endpapers. Issued as Volume VII in "Hurst and Blackett's Standard Library of Cheap Editions of Modern Popular Works", as per the catalogue at the rear (which lists up to this title only). This edition contains a New Preface by the author, first published here. Covers lightly worn and frayed at edges, lower front corners knocked, ink name on front endpaper and the author's name inked in on title leaf; a bout a Very Good copy. Item #313951
¶ Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796 - 1865) was a Nova Scotian politician, judge, and author who was the first international best-selling fiction author from what is now Canada, and who served as a Conservative Member of Parliament in England. SAM SLICK'S WISE SAWS... was originally issued by Hurst & Blackett in two volumes in 1853. Satyrical and humourous short stories, set in Nova Scotia.
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