Vice Versa: or A Lesson to Fathers
F. Anstey
1882
Smith, Elder & Co
6th Edition
12mo
Description:
The sixth edition, 1882, of F. Anstey’s Vice Versa: or, A Lesson to Fathers, published in London by Smith, Elder & Co. in the year of the book’s first appearance. Anstey’s comic fantasy, perhaps the original body-swap novel, tells how a pompous City merchant, Mr Paul Bultitude, and his schoolboy son Dick, who dreads going back to his boarding school, are exchanged by the magic of an Indian stone after Mr Bultitude carelessly wishes that he were a boy again.
Condition:
Good Condition. Brown cloth. Binding is firm. Contents are lightly foxed. Exlibris plate to inside front cover and front end paper. Boards are clean with some fraying to spine ends.
Vice Versa: or A Lesson to Fathers
F. Anstey
1882
Smith, Elder & Co
6th Edition
12mo
Description:
The sixth edition, 1882, of F. Anstey’s Vice Versa: or, A Lesson to Fathers, published in London by Smith, Elder & Co. in the year of the book’s first appearance. Anstey’s comic fantasy, perhaps the original body-swap novel, tells how a pompous City merchant, Mr Paul Bultitude, and his schoolboy son Dick, who dreads going back to his boarding school, are exchanged by the magic of an Indian stone after Mr Bultitude carelessly wishes that he were a boy again.
Condition:
Good Condition. Brown cloth. Binding is firm. Contents are lightly foxed. Exlibris plate to inside front cover and front end paper. Boards are clean with some fraying to spine ends.
