John Halifax, Gentleman, by Dinah Craik - With one engraving "Ursaua March" by J.E. Millaris and John Saddler, London Hurst and Blacket - Gravure anglaise XIXe siècle d'une petite fille - This is the story of a young orphan adventures at the height of the Industrial Revolution. John Halifax is an orphan, determined to make his success through honest hard work. He becomes an apprentice to Abel Flecher, a tanner and a Quaker, and is soon befriended by Abel’s invalid son, Phineas, who chronicles John’s success in business and love, rising from the humblest of origins to the pinnacle of wealth made possible by England’s Industrial Revolution. Dinah Maria Mulock Craik explores the sweeping transformation wrought by this revolutionary technological age, including the rise of the middle class and its impact on the social, economic, and political makeup of the nation as it moved from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century. Fourteenth edition, Hurst and Blackett Publishers, London. (with date, probably late 1880's.) #man's ambition, #orphan, #industrial revolution, #engraving Millaris, #print Millaris, #print John Saddler, #engraving John Saddler, #gravure petite fille
John Halifax, Gentleman, by Dinah Craik - With one engraving "Ursaua March" by J.E. Millaris and John Saddler, London Hurst and Blacket - Gravure anglaise XIXe siècle d'une petite fille -
This is the story of a young orphan adventures at the height of the Industrial Revolution.
John Halifax is an orphan, determined to make his success through honest hard work. He becomes an apprentice to Abel Flecher, a tanner and a Quaker, and is soon befriended by Abel’s invalid son, Phineas, who chronicles John’s success in business and love, rising from the humblest of origins to the pinnacle of wealth made possible by England’s Industrial Revolution.
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik explores the sweeping transformation wrought by this revolutionary technological age, including the rise of the middle class and its impact on the social, economic, and political makeup of the nation as it moved from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century.
Fourteenth edition, Hurst and Blackett Publishers, London. (with date, probably late 1880's.) #man's ambition, #orphan, #industrial revolution, #engraving Millaris, #print Millaris, #print John Saddler, #engraving John Saddler, #gravure petite fille
Description : livre relié, couverture toilée, 430 pages, format 19,5 cm x 13 cm. bon état intérieur, usure de couverture.
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