first edition Hardcover
1859 · Boston
by COPELAND, R. Morris
Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1859. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Thick octavo. x, 813pp., double-page frontispiece plate (color-tinted lithograph), wood engraved vignettes, in-text illustrations, and plates. Publisher's brown ribbon-embossed cloth, gilt spine title. Front hinge is loose, an about very good copy with some slight mottling to the boards. Neat ownership signature of journalist, author and polymath Charles Leland: "Charles Leland, Metropolitan Hotel. July 29/59. (Inventory #: 47403)