1890 · Boston
by FIELDS, James T.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1890. Stated thirty-eighth edition. Contemporary half-morocco with marbled paper, stamped in gilt on spine, top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; [viii],419pp. Lightly rubbed, spine mildly faded, but sound: a handsome, Very Good copy. Reminiscences by a noted American publisher, the literary partner for Ticknor & Fields, discussing Thackeray, Hawthorne, Dickens, Wordsworth, Mary Russell Mitford, and "Barry Cornwall.
(Inventory #: 59373)