The Youth’s Instructor and Guardian for 1847. Published by J. Mason, London.

An attractive annual volume of The Youth's Instructor and Guardian for 1847, a Wesleyan Methodist periodical combining religious and moral instruction with educational and entertaining reading for young people. The collection brings together twelve monthly issues featuring stories, biographies, history, geography, natural history and devotional material. Each issue retains its engraved frontispiece, offering an interesting insight into Victorian juvenile literature, education and religious values.

The Youth’s Instructor and Guardian for 1847. Vol. 31 from the Commencement (from title page). Vol XI of the Second Series (from Index at rear).

Published by J. Mason, London, 1847. 1st edition thus - a bound collection of 12 monthly issues (January to December), each with their own frontispiece, and annual Index at the rear.

A good hardback with black leather spine and corners. The spine with with gilt tooled decoration title. With marbled paper over boards. Covers lightly rubbed and bumped, and joints are rubbed. Endpapers at front inner hinge split at gutter, but text block holding firm. Front endpapers with previous owner’s name and date, small bookbinder’s label and small black ink ‘box’ - probably obscuring a price.

Text is bright and clean throughout with occasional light usage mark, and a few minor marks to edge of text block and occasional minor age-related flaw.

Text in English.

576pp (plus main title page and frontispiece engravings).

Dimensions: Approximately 183mm high x 115mm wide x 42mm deep.

Weight approximately 553g.