Boston: New England Publishing Company, 1878.
Price: $750.00
Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. Original decorated brown cloth, gilt lettering. 373pp. Heliotype frontispiece portrait, one inserted plate, three inserted folding leaves of facsimile holograph. Faint penciled contemporary ownership signature of Lizzie Blanpied, light rubbing on the boards, very near fine. Account of the life and education of Laura Bridgman (1829-1889), who was the first blind-deaf person to receive a formal education and whose longtime residence at the Perkins Institution for the Blind influenced a generation of students, including Anne Sullivan (who went on to fame as Helen Keller’s teacher). Almost always found very well-worn.
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