first edition
1857 · Halifax, Nova Scotia
by HERBERT, Sarah and Mary E.
Halifax, Nova Scotia: [Cambridge: Thurston and Torry for] E. G. Fuller, 1857. First edition. Frontispieces spotted, spine sunned, board edges lightly rubbed. 8vo. 237pp. Two lithographed frontispieces by Sarony, Major and Knapp, New York. Contemporary black hard-grained morocco, gilt-lettered on spine, edges gilt. A fine Nova Scotia imprint, from two sisters who had emigrated from Ireland as young children. Morgan p.184; Lande 1843; Staton & Tremaine/ TPL 5755; Watters p. 90. (Inventory #: 400933)