Description: John Greenleaf Whittier is primarily remembered for his poetry but he also was a contributor to many magazines during his career. A Quaker, he wrote about abolition and slavery; he also was a writer of many poems about country life, a rural America that was rapidly vanishing with the advent of industrialization. This work contains essays he wrote on those topics. It is an excellent condition with the original publisher’s cloth binding and age appropriate paper discoloration. Very Good Condition: 12mo: brown publisher’s cloth with embossed design front and back: plain spine with gilt lettering: bookplate inside front: J.W. Brooks/Milton Hill; “Lottie/from her/loving sister/Mary/Nov.19.1855”; stamp from bookstore S.K. Whipple of Boston: one set of facing pages (see photos) shows discoloration: “Literary Recreations and Miscellanies” by John G. Whittier: Boston: Ticknor and Fields:1854. RAREA1854ADEA
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Year Printed: 1854
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Essays & Speeches
Binding: Cloth
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
Subject: Americana
Original/Facsimile: Facsimile
Language: English
Publisher: Ticknor and Fields
Place of Publication: Boston
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
