True Stories From History and Biography.

Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851.

Price: $750.00


About the item

Billings, Hammat. First Edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three plates after illustrations by Hammat Billings. v, [ii], 343pp. Thurston, Torry and Emerson, Printers. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound by STIKEMAN & CO. in three quarter blue morocco, richly gilt spines, raised bands, t.e.g., with the original publishers' brown cloth covers bound in. From the library of Agnes Neustadt, with her bookplate. About fine. BAL 7655 ; Clark A12.1.a1 ("Probable First State").

Item #306829

This selection prints together Grandfather's Chair, Famous Old People, Liberty Tree and Biographical Stories. Hawthorne made minor revisions for this selection.