A Brief History of Maine, Second Edition

Portland, Maine: McLellan, Mosher & Co, 1890. Second Edition. Cloth. Near fine. 12mo; 336pp; blue cloth over board, stamped in black with art nouveau stylized pine needles and decorative borders, title gilt-stamped; edges marbled; small floral relief printed endpapers; wood engraved frontispiece printed in purple; 10 listed illustrations in text; newspaper clippings hand dated 1892 and 1894 with notes pasted to recto rear fly-leaf, with offsetting to corresponding page of text; light scuffing to corners, head & tail of spine; near fine. Written and dedicated to "The Young People of Maine", each chapter is followed by questions for discussion. Published by McLellan, Mosher & Co., a publishing firm formed by Mosher and McLellan after the death of Aurin Dresser and the dissolution of Dresser and McLellan, it was only briefly in business before bankruptcy. Thomas Bird Mosher would go on to form the Mosher Company, important in the world of private press.