{"product_id":"samuel-butlers-notebooks-samuel-butler-1st-edition-thus","title":"Samuel Butler's Notebooks, Samuel Butler — 1st Edition Thus","description":"\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003ePublication:\u003c\/b\u003e London, Jonathan Cape, 1951\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eFormatting:\u003c\/b\u003e 8vo, pp. 327.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"4\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eCondition Report:\u003c\/b\u003e Very Good. The original blue cloth boards remain remarkably vivid and unfaded, and the gilt titling to the spine is exceptionally bright and unoxidised. The binding is structurally sound, square, and tight, displaying virtually no shelf-wear to the extremities. Internally, the pages are crisp, bright, and free of extraneous markings. The unclipped dust-wrapper (priced 12s. 6d. net) exhibits typical age-toning, most pronounced across the spine and rear panel, which displays some mild soiling, alongside minor edge-wear and slight nicks at the spine head and tail, yet it remains fully intact and highly presentable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"5\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"5\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eCatalogue Note:\u003c\/b\u003e This copy represents the first printing of Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill’s meticulously re-edited selection of Samuel Butler’s famous everyday thoughts. Butler’s original notes were first compiled and published posthumously by his friend Henry Festing Jones, with further extracts appearing decades later. The present volume provides a refined, amalgamated selection of the strongest entries from those previous collections, alongside a number of previously unpublished short passages not found in the original manuscript sources.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"6\"\u003eThe text is unillustrated and is presented in the publisher's original cloth binding. While this title is generally common on the open market, it has become increasingly scarce to encounter a copy boasting such vividly bright cloth and pristine gilt tooling; the materials from this specific post-war period frequently suffer from heavy fading, oxidisation, or the total loss of their fragile original wrappers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"7\"\u003eA fascinating and highly readable window into the mind of the iconoclastic Victorian author of \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"102\"\u003eErewhon\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"114\"\u003eThe Way of All Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e. Samuel Butler was a meticulous recorder of his own thoughts, and these commonplace notebooks capture his irreverent wit, profound observations, and philosophical musings on everything from art and literature to religion and science. Keynes and Hill's superb selection distils the very best of Butler's lifelong reflections into a single, indispensable volume, offering an intimate and entertaining portrait of one of the nineteenth century's most original and provocative thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadhursts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54322286625107,"sku":"5479","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/1469\/6787\/files\/20260708_123206.jpg?v=1784185536","url":"https:\/\/broadhurstsbooks.com\/products\/samuel-butlers-notebooks-samuel-butler-1st-edition-thus","provider":"Broadhursts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}