The Missionary, an Indian Tale. By Miss Owenson. Three volumes in one.
New York: Franklin Company, 1811.
Price: $1,250.00
About the item
First American edition. 279 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled sheep, spine gilt with brown morocco lettering-piece. Some scuffing to extremities, some damage to spine label, toned and spotted throughout, pp. 9-10 and 81-2 with repairs to outer margin touching text, pp. 123-4 with repair to lower outer corner, pp. 247-8 holed without loss and soiled, some marginal paperfaults, some creasing to corners. Provenance: Martha “Patsy” Oldham Taylor Stewart (1808-1864) and her husband Willis Stewart (1799-1856), of Louisville Kentucky (inscriptions). Garside 1811:61; OCLC 2376647; Shaw & Shoemaker 23436; cf. Summers p. 417 (1st UK); cf. Sadleir 1775 (second UK edition).
Item #267140
An important work of Romantic Orientalism and admired by Shelley.
