453pp; Brown cloth boards with gilt titling to spine, moderate wear to corners of boards, slight scuffing to boards, original decorated endpapers, previous owner's name (with 1902 date) to flyleaf, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Scarce antique tome on a variety of topics by Webster Edgerly (1852-1926) the author of numerous guides to personal magnetism and other self-help systems, under the pseudonym Edmund Shaftesbury. Partial Contents: Human Cultivation; Destiny of Life; The Murderer At Large; Foods of the Future; The Servant Question; Amusements; Poverty and Wealth; Creeds Are Unchristian; much more.