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London: The Folio Society, 1998. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Quarter bound in blue cloth in a slip-case, headband, xxxix + 443 pages, with engravings through-out by Miriam Maggregor, slip-case is in Near Fine condition, check out the scans.. 1st Folio Society Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Engravings by Miriam Maggregor . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Folio Society, 1998. 443 pp, 8vo (8" H). Quarter teale blue buckram, Ann Muir marbled paper boards; maroon endpapers, maroon slipcase. B&w illustrations by Miriam Macgregor + fold-out genealogical table. "Thomas Turner's diary covers a little over eleven years in the life of a man who kept a shop in the Sussex village of East Hoathly - a village some seven miles north-east of Lewes. When the first surviving volume of the diary begins in February 1754 Turner was a newly married twenty-four-year-old recently arrived in the village. When he stopped writing his diary in 1765 he was thirty-five and one of the pillars of the community. His bride of eleven years before was dead and so was their only child. He had come through times of worry and depression to acquire maturity and a modest status - and he was about to embark on a fruitful second marriage." Tiny liquid mark on top of text block. Slipcase has very light rubbing, three small light stains on one side panel.. First… Read More