The Wide-Awake Gift: Know-Nothing Token for 1855. Edited by "One of Them

New York: J.C. Derby, 1855. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. Illustrated with steel engraved plates, including a fine added engraved title page and frontispiece portrait of Daniel Webster engraved by J.C. Buttre. Publisher's red cloth decorated in gilt and blind. Contemporary gift inscription ("Miss Amanda Nichols. Warren, R.I. Presented to her by her friend Content Mavis. July 17th 1855"), corners rubbed through the cloth a bit, a very good, sound copy. Contributors include Emerson, Longfellow, Bryant, L.H. Sigourney, and Whittier. *BAL* 18404.