Taft's Copy–for carelessness
Waverley.
[Boston: Published by Ticknor and Fields, 1857].
Price: $650.00
About the item
Engraved title to second volume only. 1 vols. 8vo. Taft's Copy–for carelessness. Two volumes bound in one. Nineteenth century brown cloth, leather label with gilt letters at foot of spine of Y[oung] M[en's] M[ercantile] L[ibrary] A[ssociation] [of Cinncinnati]. Label quite rubbed, cloth frayed and rubbed along joints and extremities, shaken, lacking leaves preceding dedication leaf other than blank, marginal browning, ex-library with lettering on spine, bookplate removed, stamp on a leaf, else a good copy.
Item #24591
With “Wm. Howard Taft Sept. 1873” on the blank at front with a notation underneath “A reward for carelessness.” This would have been his last year at Woodword High School in Cincinnati prior to his admission to Yale.
