first edition
1870 · New York
by White, Richard Grant
New York: Sheldon and Co, 1870. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 437; original terracotta cloth, gilt-lettered spine, light wear to extremities and minor rubbing, else a good and sound copy. Dedicated to James Russell Lowell. Most of the essays appearing in this volume had prior publication in the Galaxy 1867-69. "Witty, influential, and often unsound" (DAB).
(Inventory #: 25054)