A brief sketch of the life of James Read.

by his grandson James Read Chadwick, M.D. by James Read

$75 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Boston: The Merrymount Press, 1905. 8vo, pp. 2 , 34; gravure frontis portrait, silhouette portrait, facsimile poem, gravure plate; black cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-titled spine, some wear to extremities, spine ends cracking and beginning to fray, else very good. This copy with presentation to Mrs. William C. Loring with regards of James R. Chadwick, Boston, July 13, 1905. Read 1789-1870 was a prominent Boston merchant and manufacturer;

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