The Philadelphia Book; or Specimens of Metropolitan Literature

by Gift Book, Benjamin Rush, Matthew Carey

$150 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

Philadelphia: Key & Biddle, 1836. First Edition. First printing. 12mo 19cm . In original purple ribbon-embossed cloth, titled in gilt on spine; plain endpapers; iv, 13 -380pp; wood engraving of William Penn's house on t.p. A straight, sound copy, spine faded, lightly rubbed, front hinge half-way cracked with front endpaper and flyleaf partly detached; front endpaper renewed; foxed

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