The Research Magnificent by H.G. Wells - 1915
by H.G. Wells
The Research Magnificent
by H.G. Wells
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Flaws - The boards and spine edges have rubs and discoloration caused by shelf storage, the board tips are bent (photo). The pages are moderately and uniformly toned, the page edges more so, consistent with a book that is over a hundred years old (photo).
The string-tied boards and spine are strong and firm, and the book lies flat, plumb, and square (photo). All pages are present. No marks or entries.
Extremely Rare. Well's undedicated and distinctive inked signature is on the Table of Contents page (photo).
From Wikipedia: The text of this novel of ideas presents itself as a book that has been written as the result of a promise to a dying man. William Porphyry Benham is a man who has lived a life devoted to a complicated, protean idea: "that he had to live life nobly and thoroughly." He has left behind him "half a score of patent files quite distended [with papers] and a writing-table drawer-full," and the novel is by implication what his friend White, who has promised to "see after your book," has produced to acquit himself of the promise since the papers themselves are "an indigestible aggregation."
Benham is a man of means due to curious circumstances: his mother left his father, a schoolmaster, for a wealthy man named Nolan who died soon thereafter, but not before leaving "about a third of his very large fortune entirely to Mrs. Benham and the rest to her in trust for her son, whom he deemed himself to have injured." His mother subsequently marries a great London surgeon and becomes Lady Marayne; her indiscretion is forgiven and she enjoys a position of privilege.
The bulk of the novel recounts Benham's effort to live nobly, which brings him into conflict with his mother, with his friend Prothero, a schoolboy chum who becomes a Cambridge don, and with his wife, Amanda, a young woman he loves passionately but then leaves behind in England to travel the world (India, Russia, China) in search of wisdom. It is in Johannesburg, South Africa, that Benham is fatally shot while attempting to stop soldiers firing at strikers.
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- Edition 1st Edition, 2nd Printing
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- Publisher MacMillan Company
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1915
- Pages 460
- Size 5.25" x 7.25"
- Size 5.25" x 7.25"
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. A superb rebound edition now reconditioned for a further 50 years good use. The book best known as Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, also published as Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book, is an extensive guide to running a household in Victorian Britain, edited by Isabella Beeton and first published as a book in 1861. Previously published in parts, it initially and briefly bore the title Beeton's Book of Household Management, as one of the series of guide-books published by her husband, Samuel Beeton. The recipes were highly structured, in contrast to those in earlier cookbooks. It was illustrated with many monochrome and colour plates. Although Mrs Beeton died in 1865, the book continued to be a best-seller. The first editions after her death contained an obituary notice, but later editions did not, allowing readers to imagine that… Read More
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The Research Magnificent
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The Research Magnificent
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