first edition
1831 · Boston
by FISK, Benjamin Franklin
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1831. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); contemporary flame sheep, red morocco gilt-lettered spine label; vii,[1],171pp.; lithographic frontispiece of the Greek alphabet. Boards a bit rubbed at extremities, joints cracked but still holding, dampstain affecting bottom corner of upper cover and approx. one third of early textblock; offsetting from frontispiece to title page. Still, Near Very Good, with contemporary yellow Utica bookseller ticket to front pastedown and early pencil ownership signatures to front free endpaper. A revised edition was published in New York the same year. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label laid in. (Inventory #: 30228)