Philadelphia: William Marshall and Co., (1839).
Price: $100.00
Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. Illustrated with steel-engraved plates, including a frontispiece portrait and added engraved title with vignette. Contemporary dark red morocco, stamped in blind with gilt spine and centerpiece of an angle on both covers, all edges gilt. Darkening and rubbing to the board edges, scattered foxing to the endleaves, very good. Features the first printed appearances of "The Sabbath. Sketches from a Note-Book of an Elderly Gentleman," by Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Ruins of Herod's Palace," and "A Father's Pity," by Lydia Sigourney, and "The Northern Lights, as Seen First Month, 1837" by John G. Whittier. *BAL* 19328, 17725, 21715.
Item #329128
Harriet Beecher Stowe
birth name: Harriet Elizabeth Beecher
born: 6/14/1811
died: 7/1/1896
nationality: USA