(title continues . . .) Consisting of Elegant Extracts on Every Subject, compiled from various authors, and arranged under appropriate heads. Half-bound leather with marbled boards, endpapers & edges, elegant ribbed spine with gilt decoration & gilded title & author lettering on red & black panels, steel engraved ill. on frontis. under tissue, 504pp, First Thus Edition; originally published by Landsay & Blakiston, Philadelphia in 1847. Headband chipped, rubbing on edges with corners tips to boards, rubbing on center area of boards, edges moderately faded, gift note penciled on front free endpaper with two small holes rubbed through from agressive erasures, text lightly agetoned, crisp & clean, protected in a new archival glassine dust jacket.

LITERARY COLLECTIONS, REFERENCE, POETRY