Agnes of Sorrento
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862.
Price: $1,250.00
Hardcover. First edition. Publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. 412, 16(ads)pp. Attractive engraved bookplate on the front pastedown, spine insignificantly lightened and a very tiny, faint stain on the front board, still a lovely and easily fine copy. A relatively uncommon book, Stowe's idealized "Italian" novel, which exhibited her new found tolerance for Catholicism. Fine copies are exceptionally scarce.
Item #87453
Harriet Beecher Stowe
birth name: Harriet Elizabeth Beecher
born: 6/14/1811
died: 7/1/1896
nationality: USA
Biography
American writer and philanthropist best known as the author of the powerful anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore