The working-man’s way in the world
Subtitle: being the autobiography of a journeyman printer
Publisher: William and Frederick Cash, (Successors to Charles Gilpin)
Published: [1853]
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
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, 24. Signatures: [A]6 B-Z6 2A-2G6. Original cloth. “Chas. Manby Smith” written in pencil on front endpaper. Advertisements on p. [1]-24 at end.</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;">Elusive first edition of 1853 of the anonymously published work by Charles Manby Smith (1804-1880). 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 in this collection). The work is riddled with impostures, as exposed by Simon Nowell-Smith in 1971 (Bib# 4103486/Fr# 835).</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_4103483" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>