The Age of Reason (1700-1789) by Harold Nicolson - 1960

Axios Press, 2009-05-01. Paperback. Good. 1.3000 in x 8.9000 in x 6.0000 in.

Axios Press, 2009. Paperback. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Axios Press, 5/1/2009 12:00:01 AM. paperback. Good. 1.3000 8.9000 6.0000. Minimal underlining threwout. Cover/edges have minor scuffing.

Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Constable, 1960. Hardcover. Good. 1960. First Published. 424 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated and photographic plates. Light tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

Text is clean and unmarked. Tight binding has some fading and staining around the outer edges. "3105" is written on the top outside corner of the back binding. Card holder is attached to the back free end paper. Library stamp on the top of the text block. Paper strips are glued to the front and back inside of the binding. "Above all, perhaps, the rationalists of the eighteenth century aroused the social conscience of mankind and stimulated humanitarianism...No writer of any significance during the Age of Reason defended the slave trade and it was owing to the denunciations of the intellectuals, as well as to the birth of humanitarian conscience, that the trade was eventually abolished by the civilized European states."

Panther History title. In very good condition, with tight binding and black and white photographic illustrations intact and clean. 558 pages includes index. Cover illustration Rousseau by Ramsay.

London: Constable & Co, 1961. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Second printing (1961) of first edition (1960). Foxing to edge of block, but this rarely intruding onto pages which are clean and bright throughout. Former owner's signature neatly to fep. Blue boards with silver decoration and titling to spine, lightly worn and rather marked. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. xxii, 424pp

Doubleday And Company, Inc., 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. Light wear to cloth and darkening of cloth on spine.