The working-man’s way in the world
Subtitle: being the Autobiography of a Journeyman Printer. 2nd thousand
Publisher: W. and F.G. Cash; James McGlashan; John Menzies
Published: 1854
Place of publication: London; Dublin; Edinborough
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. xii, 347, 12. Signatures: [A]6 B-Z6 2A-2G6. Original cloth. First edition sheets with a cancel title (see handwritten note on front free endpaper).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The work by Charles Manby Smith (1804-1880) was published anonymously and first appeared in 1853 (see Bib# 4103483/Fr# 832 in this collection). This highly plausible forgery was long treasured as evidence for printing and publishing activities in the mid-19th century (see the Printing Historical Society’s unsuspecting reprint of 1967 (Bib# 4103485/Fr# 834).</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103484" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>