Three fabulous volumes, part leather bound and published in 1825.
Buck’s Anecdotes are a collection of religious , moral and entertaining diatribes on a whole host of issues, from bigotry and prejudice to ‘useful females’. 
Insightful and hilariously dated in equal measure, for example the chapter on Drunkenness begins thus, ‘ a drunken man is a greater monster than any to be found among all the creatures which God has made ‘ . 
All in good condition for their age, tightly bound with foxing to the endpapers.