Provenance:  Front free endpaper with inked inscription: “S. Doubleday to H. Doubleday [/] 1822.” Most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  NCBEL, III, 1089; NSTC 2H824.   Contemporary quarter red roan in imitation of morocco with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities rubbed, spine leather showing tiny cracks, sides a bit scuffed. Pages gently age-toned with scattered small faint spots, some cockling. A solid, clean copy of an influential work of natural theology and scientific pedagogy.  (38642)

“Your Brother has just called with this album, in which, he tells me, it is your wish that I should write something.

I am so much flattered by your request that I lose no time in complying with it: but I am much at a loss what to say that shall deserve a place in so gay a book — & in such good Company.

But as it becomes every well bred lion to roar for the entertainment of the company when he is bid — whether he be in a growling mood or not — I take up my pen accordingly.

Yet I daresay you will often have the mortification of hearing the visitors to this your 'menagerie' exclaim — 'Well! I am sure I never saw such a stupid wild beast before — I dont [sic] believe he is a real lion after all — I have heard many a donkey make quite as good an exhibition!'”

Hall (1788–1844) was a Scot, a naval officer, and author of several accounts of voyages and travels including Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Island in the Japan Sea (1818), Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico in the years 1820, 1821, 1822 (1824), and Travels in North America in 1827–28 (1829). Miss Walsh (b 8 July 1812) was the daughter of Robert Walsh (Philadelphia lawyer and abolitionist) and Anna Maria Moylan Walsh (who died in 1826).

Provenance:  The Walsh album sold at Anderson Galleries 28 Nov. 1921 (sale 1609) as lot 60. Later in the Allyn K. Ford Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, recently deaccessioned.

•  Very good condition.  (34491)

As Hall writes that he will be easy to find because he is “about as well known here — though I hope in a different spirit — as in Yankee Land,” we date the letter to some time shortly enough after publication of Travels in North America for oblique reference to its angry reception there to be both natural and “fresh”; and, indeed, we wonder if his correspondent is American?

Provenance:  Ex–Allyn K. Ford Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, recently deaccessioned.

•  Very good condition. Old folds, a few spots of pale tea-colored stains. Written in a pale ink that is yet quite legible.  (33346)

•  BAL 4703; Sabin 20506.   Removed from a nonce volume. Last leaf with tears (repaired). Age-toned.  (38407)

Chapters include conversations between daughter Mary and her father on the utmost importance of prayer, sacraments, and charity; the “reciprocal duties of masters and servants”; the “necessity of subordination”; and “caution to female domestics against dancing-meetings,” among many, many other topics large and small.

The text is handsomely printed double-column in roman and italic, withtwo finely engraved frontispieces signed by E. Edwards and J. Hall, one at the beginning of each volume: the first of a father and daughter sitting beneath a tree; the second of Hanway seated on a rock, contemplating a book and skull beneath the motto “Never Despair” — the author's own, which he adopted after a particularly grueling merchant voyage for the Russia Company in 1743. Each volume also has its own title-page, the Manual of Devotion, Consisting of Prayers, Psalms, Hymns, and Lessons that appears between the two having its own as well.

•  ESTC T93949; Goldsmiths-Kress 11624. On Hanway, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online.   Contemporary speckled calf, boards framed in a gilt Greek key pattern, gilt board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers; recently rebacked, spine gilt extra preserving original gilt-tooled green morocco label and adding a new red one gilt with author and title. Boards stained and scratched in a few places, corners bumped, chipping leather glued down; marbled endpapers repaired with photocopy segments of the original design. Ex-library: stamps on bottom edge, front endpaper, and rear pastedown (only). Mild to moderate foxing on a handful of leaves in each volume, and one small circular stain affecting eight or so pages in first, while pages mostly clean and bright; short closed tear to bottom margin of one leaf in second volume. Nice.  (31089)

women

Vol. I opens with a steel-engraved portrait of the author, done by Henry Cook after Hervé; vol. III is illustrated with an oversized, folding plate of a water-engine intended for millwork, devised by the author, and a plate of another of his inventions: the automated “chamber fire escape”, which enables anyone to lower him- or herself from a high window. This is the third edition, following the first of 1807.

•  NSTC H625; Sabin 30461.   Contemporary speckled sheep, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels; vol. I with joints and extremities refurbished, vols. II and III with spines and edges rubbed, old strips of library tape reinforcing spine heads. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplates, call number on endpapers, pressure-stamp on title-pages, vols. II and III with paper shelving labels at top of spines (vol. I showing signs of now-absent label). Vol. I title-page with offsetting from frontispiece; vol. III with pp. 69–72 excised (two leaves of a rather long religious-themed letter from Harriott to his son) and with upper portion of one leaf crumpled, reinforced some time ago. Some light age-toning, intermittent small spots of foxing and ink-staining, pages generally clean. Utterly absorbing.  (30651)

•  NSTC 2B38504.   Removed from a nonce volume. A few traces of very faint spots of foxing, else clean and fresh. (16824)

Beginning in 1881 the examinations were “accepted as an equivalent for the entrance examination by Wellesley College and by Smith and Vassar Colleges as the equivalent in such subjects . . . as are covered by it,” and beginning in 1887 Bryn Mawr College fell in line. Commencing in 1884 the examinations were also used “to determine admission to classes given by the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women [i.e., the successor to the “Harvard Annex” and predecessor of Radcliffe College],” and in 1895 considered for admission to Radcliffe College (as per data in later editions).

WorldCat seems to locate only eight actual copies but MANY e- and micro-surrogates.

•  Original printed blue-green wrappers; lightly worn, starting at head and foot. Released as a duplicate from Haverford College (no stamps, just a pencil note in a margin). Very good condition.  (38348)

Binding:  Contemporary mottled calf, front cover with elaborate gilt-stamped EC monogram and coronet, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt compartment decorations. Marbled endpapers and all edges marbled; original silk bookmark present and intact.

•  DeBacker-Sommervogel, IV, 860. Brunet gives only the Hague edition of the same year.   Binding as above, leather scuffed and rubbed with spine head chipped yet gilt still bright. Pages gently age-toned and cockled, with some offsetting front and rear from the binding and scattered small spots of foxing; a few corners bumped. A handsome volume and an interesting 18th-century perspective on the near-mythic rebel queen.  (36250)

Provenance:  Inked signature of John Anderson on endpaper and title-page, flourished, with additional pencilled signature on title-page; later in the library of American collector Albert Howard (sans indicia).

•  ESTC W29588; Evans 27104. On Seymour, see: Stauffer & Fielding, American Engravers, I, p. 244.   Bound as above, gently rubbed with joints repaired; one small spot of glue on back cover, light pencilling on endpapers. Light to moderate age-toning/foxing/spotting throughout; one short marginal tear, one small interlinear hole, one creased corner. A uniquely American take on this popular English work; a very American production.  (37845)

Binding:  Handsome diced tan calf, covers framed in gilt roll composed of pyramid and trefoil elements, spine with wide raised bands, gilt-stamped leather title and author labels, and gilt-stamped foliate designs in compartments and on bands. Turn-ins with blind roll; marbled paper endpapers. All edges marbled (different marbling than the endpapers).

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of British collector and author Eric Stanley Quayle, dated 1965; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  NCBEL, II, 658; NSTC 2H14088.   Bound as above, joints (outside) and corners mildly rubbed, leather a little mottled; light offsetting to title-page from frontispiece. Occasional tiny spots of faint foxing, pages otherwise clean. A lovely, appealing copy of this interesting cross between Spenser and Pope.  (37630)

•  ESTC T1746; NCBEL, II, 658. Marbled paper–covered boards, old-style, front cover and spine with printed paper labels. Lacking half-title. Title-page and a few others faintly stamped by a now-defunct institution. First few leaves lightly foxed, scattered small spots elsewhere, a very nice copy.  (6934)

Hays notes in her preface that “Women, unsophisticated by the pedantry of the schools, read not for dry information, to load their memories with uninteresting facts, or to make a display of a vain erudition . . . they require pleasure to be mingled with instruction, lively images, the graces of sentiment, and the polish of language” (vol. I, p. iii). These last things, she strives to supply herself!

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 12742; Sabin 31061.   Period-style quarter tan cloth over blue-grey paper-covered sides, spines with printed paper labels. Title-page of each volume with the blind pressure- (not perforation-) stamp of a social club library. As in all copies we have had, pages age-toned, with a few foxed or spotted; occasional short edge tears, not extending into text. Three leaves in vol. II with tears in margin with loss of paper only and four other leaves in the same volume with loss of paper and either a few letters (pp. 10710) or words (approximately half the words on each of five lines on pp. 15152 and a word or threeon each of five lines on 22930).A good resource and a good “read.”  (28716)

Many of the recipes in the first portion of this book are attributed to such well-known names as Glasse, Raffald, and Mason. Oxford points out that both the extended subtitle and the overall contents of the work as a whole are strikingly similar to Mary Cole's Lady's Complete Guide of 1791, commenting “One wonders who was the real author.” Whatever its origins, the present volume as attributed to Hazlemore is now uncommon: WorldCat, ESTC, and Cagle cite only seven U.S. institutional holdings.

Provenance:  Front free endpaper with ownership inscription and title-page with pressure-stamp of prominent cookbook collector Eloise Schofield; title-page also with early inked inscription of Charlotte Booty; front pastedown with early ticket of J. Rackham, a late 18th-/early 19th-century printer and bookseller in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.

•  ESTC T93869; Cagle, Matter of Taste, 734; Oxford, English Cookery, 122. Not in Bitting.   Incomplete copy. Contemporary treed sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, scuffed; spine label and extremities chipped, joints open and volume tender, front cover with spots of insect damage extending through to upper inner margins of first few leaves, touching two letters of title but no other text. Pp. 331/32, 341–44, 357–62, and 365–84 excised with great neatness (and no, we cannot work out any theory of “why”). Scattered instances of early pencilled or inked marginal annotations, including alternate instructions in two cases anda full recipe for dressed spinach inked at the end of the vegetables section, intended to replace the crossed-out printed recipe provided. Pages age-toned, otherwise clean. An incomplete copy, priced accordingly, of a still interesting work.  (29554)

Present here is an early U.S. edition of the first series; two series were published, the first in 1847–49 and the second in 1859. Much of the second volume of this series is dedicated to the question of slavery.

•  Allibone 818. On Helps, see: Dictionary of National Biography online.   Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, spines with gilt-stamped title; moderate rubbing most noticeable at vol. I spine head, and vol. II with strip of dark cloth tape at head of spine extending onto sides. Ex–social club library: front pastedowns with 19th-century bookplate and call-number sticker, front free endpapers lacking, title-pages pressure-stamped, no other markings. Pages age-toned, with intermittent spots of staining and light pencilled bracketing.  (26412)

Binding:  Intricately embossed burgundy calf with gilt lettering to spine; the spine design is derived from a Remnant & Edmonds spine plaque, according to Wolf. Each board has a medallion in the center featuring a woman in a chariot pulled by two galloping horses with several delicate stars in the sky; the medallion is framed by elaborate acanthus and foliate motifs. Blue marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. Signed byBenjamin Gaskill (“Gaskill, Phila”) on spine.

WorldCat locates only eight copies of this 1838 edition.

•  Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks, 190.   Bound as above, mildest rubbing; marbled endpapers rubbed and slightly discolored just along edges from action by turn-ins. First set of contents with pages bound out of order. Interior age-toned as expectable, with instances of foxing especially along top edges throughout and with light evidence of old waterstaining along bottom ones; title-page with short inked line from outer edge, added engraving with small closed tear A nice example of Gaskill's embossing work and a delightful volume overall, “personalized.” (38710)

This is a fine, extremely early example of Father Hidalgo's signature.

The woman who provided the money for the above mentioned masses was the wife of Antonio de Vivano (also spelled Bibano) Gutiérrez and mother of Antonio Guadalupe de Vivano, the first two Condes de Vivanco. Cambridge scholar David Brading credits Antonio de Vivanco with restoring the mining region of Bolaños to prosperity in the early 1770s, following the region's sharp decline in silver ore production during the first two-thirds of the 18th century — whereby he became very wealthy.

In addition to payment for masses for her soul, Doña Augustina's will provides for large sums of money to be spent on construction work on the chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the bishopric of Guadalajara. The paperwork, including receipts, associated with the distribution of her largesse is weighty and detailed.

Among the collateral documents in this offering are copies of the last wills and testaments of Antonio de Vivanco Gutiérrez (1796), Augustina Velázquez (1780), and Antonio Guadalupe de Vivanco (1800); the inventory of the younger Vivanco's massive estate (1801); and a marvelouscalligraphic manuscript in which the bishop of Guadalajara grants a special privilege to Vivanco the elder. All are notarially certified copies of the originals.

•  All documents in very good condition, sewn, in contemporary vellum bindings.  (3731)

Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Burton W.F. Trafton, Jr.’s library at Old Fields in South Berwick, ME; pastedown also with binder’s ticket from Crawford & Stockbridge of Concord, NH. Front fly-leaf with inked gift inscription dated Christmas, 1887.

•  Publisher’s brown cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and dark brown–stamped decorative bands, bottom band labelled “Christmas 1887"; corners and spine extremities rubbed, binding showing very little wear otherwise. First two signatures with sewing loosening; pages very slightly age-toned but otherwise clean.  (13883)

•  Bitting, 228. Not in Brown, Culinary Americana.   Bound as above, edges and extremities lightly rubbed; covers with small scuffs, front cover with thin scratch. One plate and attached leaf separated. Nyal stamps as above. A very few recipes with pencilled marks of emphasis, one page in dessert section with small stains and a dog-earned corner, pages otherwise clean. This is not a facsimile or reprint — it is a cleaner copy of the first edition than often seen on the market, with interesting commercial provenance.  (38622)

Neat gift inscription on front free endpaper: “Mollie, with Ada's love. 898.”

•  Publisher's light blue cloth, front cover stamped in silver with images of the Washington Monument and the Capitol; author's name and title of work stamped in in gold within silver cartouches. Light wear to edges of boards and a little spotting; a Very Good copy.  (37010)

•  Sometime bound in a nonce volume (removed). Very nice condition.  (7882)

•  Both long folded, the bill apparently into an "envelope" (with direction to Mrs. Hofmaster); receipt with some tears and tatters not affecting text.

Below her essay on the origins of the “Battle Hymn” is a facsimile of her signature. All of this is printed in blue and orange with decorations of green and orange laurel wreaths, and green and orange lilies, on a single heavyweight sheet folded to make four pages. WorldCat locatesonly three institutional copies (University of Massachusetts, University of Virginia, Rollins College), but we know of another at Harvard.

•  BAL 9478.   Folded sheet as above with very minor wrinkling to outside corners, one tiny dark spot to front, and the faintest bit of age-toning along edges. Clean, strong, and handsome, and a fitting tribute.  (38801)

•  NSTC 0356417.   Early 20th-century half blue morocco and blue cloth, leather edges with gilt rule, spines with particularly graceful gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations; spines slightly sunned, extremities rubbed. Front fly-leaves each with decorative ownership rubber-stamp. A scattered few light smudges to margins, pages otherwise clean.  (33151)

•  NSTC 2H34825.   Removed from a nonce volume. Slightly age-toned, otherwise clean.  (16963)

Binding:  19th-century red roan in imitation of morocco, best described (at length) by Tepper: “Saturated with gold, the complex design consists of a system of strapwork borders, oak leaf garlands, and finely structured borders surrounding five separate panels of religious and biblical scenes. Framed with rounded strapwork, the four smaller panels depict Noah's Ark, the lion and the lamb, and two Christian female figures, while the larger central panel features Lazarus and Christ and a retinue of of historical figures. This is to say nothing of the elaborately detailed spine decoration, which has separate strapwork panels for the title, a biblical scene, and the date of the publication. This is possibly the most ornately decorated book in the entire collection” (emphasis ours). The back cover has the frame in blind surrounding a gilt stamp of two cherubs and doves on an archway with the word “love” at bottom, floral decorations around the edge, and a three part wreath reading “F.L.T.” (Friendship, Love, Truth) with a different letter in each wreath.

Evidence of Readership: A previous reader has left a bookmark-sized section of sky blue silk and a clipping of the start of a moral tale titled “The Hidden Snare” tucked within the text; alas, the end is missing!

•  Faxon, Literary Annuals and Gift Books, 610; Tepper, American Gift Books & Literary Annuals. (Second edition), p. 164; Thompson, American Literary Annuals & Gift Books, p. 144.   Bound as above; somewhat rubbed with some loss of leather, spine ends pulling, joints and hinges starting to open, faint glue action to endpapers. Light to moderate age-toning with the occasional spot or small stain, plates remarkably unfoxed but with a few other spots; presentation leaf loosely attached at bottom. Reader evidence as above. A much nicer object than this necessary recital of faults may suggest.  (38210)

On the bottom half is a signed receipt, in Spanish, dated Granada 8 May 1501, wherein Germán de Paris and Jacques acknowledge receiving the above mentioned payment.

•  The usual slash of cancellation (faintly visible above), indicating that this has been entered into the account books. Remnant of stiff paper at top of verso indicating it was once mounted in an album.  (19360)

The LEC illustrations consist of 8 full-page and 41 in-text color drawings by Everett Gee Jackson (no relation to the author), who also signed the colophon. Saul Marks designed the book, selecting a monotype Bembo font with the chapter titles printed in red ink, and the printing was done by Saul and Lillian Marks at The Plantin Press, Los Angeles.

Binding:  In an attractive full woven fabric derived from a striated Native American design, with a colorful paper spine label.

This is numbered copy 972 of 1500 printed; the appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 298.   Binding as above in original slipcase, volume spine label slightly darkened, slipcase showing only minimal wear and with a spot or two of darkening to front panel. A very nice copy.  (30117)

•  Original illustrated wrappers. Ink markings on front cover.

•  Fine, Janus Press 1975–80, 47.   Publisher's white linen–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. A clean, crisp copy of acoolly elegant evocation of the titular theme.  (34148)

The text is neatly printed in roman in single-column format with capital spaces with guide letters (unaccomplished) and marginal notes; the title-page contains the iconic Aldine device.

Provenance:  Early ink signature “Alexii Feni” on title-page; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear of both the text and its clamshell housing.

•  Adams C1559; UCLA, Aldine Press: Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection (2001), 674; EDIT 16 CNCE 27775; Renouard, Alde, p. 186, 5; Goldsmid, Aldine Press at Venice, *546. On John Chrysostom, see: New Catholic Encyclopedia, VII, 1041–44.   16th-century limp vellum with title label on spine and evidence of ties; vellum wrinkled and stained, significant portions lacking on spine, edges of endpapers tattered with some paper loss and text block recently reattached. Housed in a maroon cloth clamshell with black leather labels. Light to moderate age-toning and staining with the occasional spot, several leaves with waterstaining to bottom corner or small marginal worm tracking; a handful of creased corners, a few examples of hurried paper manufacture, chipping to edges of first and last few leaves of text including title-page. Provenance marks as above, one early inked correction to a marginal note.  (38092)

Binding:  Excellent retrospective sprinkled calf by Wallis, covers with double gilt ruled border, raised bands, gilt spine extra; stone pattern endpapers. All edges gilt.

Provenance:  From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Moon, Tabart, 85(1); Osborne Collection p. 168.   Binding as above, in lovely condition. Pages and plates clean and crisp.A specially desirable copy.  (38531)

A limitation statement, in letter-press and signed by Kaufman and Van Vliet, announces that this unnumbered and unlettered copy is specifically for Andrew Hedden.

•  Fine, Janus Press 1981–90, 20.   Bound and housed as above, the smallest bumps to corners, back cover starting to warp at one edge, case pristine. A complex, interesting work of book art in a special copy.  (37128)

•  New. Fine in original dust jacket.  (24310)

•  New. Grey publisher's cloth, fine in original dust jacket.  (36764)

The text is illustrated with178 photographic reproductions of leaves, branches, flowers, etc. and 162 reproductions from drawings.

Binding:  Publisher's light green cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine; grey, black and beige–stamped forest to front board.

Provenance:  Inked inscription on front fly-leaf: “Elsa C. Fueslein, with the love and congratulations of G.S.S., Oct. 19/18.” Bookplate of Elsa Carla Fueslein on verso of front free endpaper.

•  Not in Minsky.   Bound as above, edges rubbed with faint stain to bottom edge of front board, light scuffs and soiling to boards; spine darkened and top edge dust-soiled. Top of rear hinge cracked (inside) with some webbing exposed; interior lightly age-toned with small closed tear to front free endpaper and the tip of one leaf missing. Informative and attractive.  (37494)

Includes two poems by Whittier: “My soul and I” and “The wife of Manoah to her husband.”

Binding:  Publisher’s textured brown calf, covers with blind-stamped frame of foliate design; front cover suitably gilt-stamped with central vignette ofJesus and the woman at the well, back cover centrally gilt-stamped with a weary-looking woman harvesting grain (Ruth?). Spine gilt-stamped with foliate (ivy?) design and ornate title; all edges gilt.

Provenance:  19th-century stencilled ownership name of H. Amelia St John (Purdy) (1838–1925) of Yates County, NY.

•  Faxon 622; Thompson 145; Tepper, American Gift Books & Literary Annuals. (Second edition), 167.   Binding as above, gilt designs moderately rubbed, edges and corners worn, spine faded and head of spine pulled. Front free endpaper clipped to remove inscription; ownership stencil to front fly-leaf. Some pages with soiling, light foxing, or brown stains. Mezzotints well accomplished and several quite lovely.  (37280)

Presentation/Provenance: The presentation is on the dedication page and reads: “For Mr. James L. Carhart. With the best sentiments of the author. Eugenia Kellogg. (Mrs. E. B. Holmes). June 2nd 1918. San Francisco.” And the recipient has written in pencil, “Note: Mrs. E. B. Holmes is the widow of Mr. Edwin B. Holmes, a fellow actor with me in the celebrated American comedian, John E. Owens' company, which played at the Vanities Theater, New Orleans, La, the season of 1874-5.”

Carhart secured a second copy of the frontispiece portrait of Kellogg and on the verso has written: “E.B. Holmes was a member of John E. Owens' company, which played at the Vanities Theater, New Orleans, La, the season of 1874-5. Mr. Holmes played old men and character parts — same as I did.”

Binding:  Publisher' green ribbed cloth, stamped in gilt on front cover with the author's name, a shortened version of the title, and the image of Telegraph Hill in the era when it was surmounted by a “castle” — “Poccalito” in his pauper's rags framed between flourishes below this. A very interesting cover.

•  Not in Wright.   Bound as above with cloth and gilt fresh and bright; a clean, obviously always treasured, little volume. Very good condition.  (34675)

The text was designed by Claire Van Vliet, set by hand in Trump Mediaeval, and printed by Van Vliet and Christy Bertelson on Barcham Green Tovil paper at the Janus Press in West Burke, VT.

This isnumbered copy 102 of a total of 170 printed, signed at the colophon by both Kinnell and Jacobi.

•  Fine, The Janus Press 1981–1990, 40/41.   Publisher's natural buckram, spine with printed paper label. A crisp, clean copy.  (35933)

The work was first published in London in 1844, with an informative introduction by its editor, Harriet Martineau; this Boston printing, including that contextualizing introduction, isthe first U.S. appearance of a significant and uncommon expression of the thoughts and dreams of women laborers in the early 19th-century American factory system.

Provenance:  Bookplate of the Wilmington Institute Free Library (originally incorporated in 1754).

•  Goldsmiths'-Kress 34077; Sabin 49192.   Publisher's straight-grained brown cloth, covers framed in triple blind fillets surrounding central blind-stamped foliate medallions, spine with gilt-stamped title and foliate motifs; extremities rubbed, spine with paper hand-inked shelving label and with affixed letter “S” partially obscuring title. Front pastedown with bookplate as noted; back free endpaper with affixed library slip noting the book was “not for circulation,” with offsetting to back pastedown. Last text page with early inked initials and with pencilled purchase note. Scattered mild foxing. A nice example of this pioneering collection, in its original publisher's binding, andonce held by a public library designed to support exactly the kind of working-class self-improvement on which the volume focuses.  (38169)