Between the Covers

Hardcover. Volume five only. Six monthly issues (January-June) bound in one volume. Octavo. pp. [2], 1-523, [1]. With an engraved title page for the volume at the front (featuring a vignette after Charles Leslie), and a letterpress title page and index bound in between the May and June issues. Bound in contemporary calf, gilt spine with title label. Lacking the engraved frontispiece plates issued with certain monthly issues, front joint is partially split, else very good with moderate scattered foxing. Contains the first important review of the "Biddle-Allen" edition of the *History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark... ,* prepared directly from the Lewis and Clark journals by Nicholas Biddle and Paul Allen. The review (signed in type: "B."), was published in two installments: in the February and March numbers (p. 129-149 and 210-234).

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