Merry-Mount; A Romance of The Massachusetts Colony.
Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1849.
Price: $250.00
About the item
First edition. Vol. I: [1] - 8, [1] - 222; vol. I: [1] - 4, [1] - 252. Two volumes bound as one. 1 vols. 12mo. Original blind-stamped red cloth. Very slight wear to spine ends, otherwise a very attractive copy of BAL binding E. Wright I 1926; BAL 14573.
Item #16316
"The crepuscular period which immediately preceded the rise of the Massachusetts Colony, possesses more of the elements of romance than any subsequent epoch ... " (Author's Preface).
A complicated historical novel about Thomas Morton's colony during the years 1628-30, Merry-Mount "has a four-dimensional solidity which continued to appear in his non-fiction. He had a genuine gift for the picturesque, for drama, for apt characterization."
