Title: Tom Burton; or, The better way. By the author of “The working man’s way in the world.”
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. ii, 80. Signatures: [A]5 [B]5 C-F8. Contains illustrations. “Presented to Robert Jackson For Good Conduct &amp; Good Attendance By Salem Chapel Sunday School, Martintop, Dec. 25th, 1863” inscribed on front free endpaper. Publisher’s catalogue dated 10 October 1863.</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;">Novel by Charles Manby Smith (1804-1880), whose highly plausible but fabricated “The Working-man’s Way in the World, Being the Autobiography of a Journeyman Printer” (1853, see Bib# 4103483/Fr# 832 in this collection) was long treasured as evidence for printing and publishing activities in the mid-century.</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_4103489" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>