Noah Webster: American Men of Letters

by Horace E. Scudder

$75 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881. Literary Biography FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp. 4 vi; 302 4 . With a frontispiece engraving of the subject. Contemporary blue half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled paper over boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed; marbled endpapers. A large blank label to front pastedown obscuring a bookplate or ownership. Toned throughout; edges browned.

• Binding: Leather

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