Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness being a series of lectures to Youth of Both Sexes

In good + condition. Early British edition of this series of six lectures originally written for the pulpit. Decoratively embossed cloth boards a little bumped to corners, shelf worn as expected. Spine cracking to top 1 cm along rear hinge. Yellow endpapers clean front and rear. Written inscription to front free endpaper reads in a contemporary hand ‘To Peter N Musgraves from His Grandfather Xmas 1854’. Text block entirely sound throughout. Very occasional underlining and highlighting in pencil. 214 pp. plus advertisements.