1835 · New York
by More, Hanna
New York: Harper & Bros, 1835. 2 volumes, large 8vo, pp. [2], viii, [13]-562, [2]; iv, [5]-587, [1]; engraved frontispiece portrait and vignette title page in volume I, unusual publisher's ripple-grain green cloth stamped in gilt on spines; a bit of fading at the edges and spines, slight wear and cracking at extremities, ink stain on p. 451 of the first volume; very good. American Imprints records only two seven-volume sets of her works in 1835, one of them by Harper, but not this large two-volume format. Plenty in OCLC, however. A large and relatively early American cloth binding - a pattern not illustrated in volume I of BAL, and nothing quite like it in Morris & Levin, nor Allen & Gullans. Also with an unusual Harper's slug at the base of the spines, stamped inside a gilt frame: "New York / H / MDCCCXXXV."
(Inventory #: 53891)