The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth

by Aldrich Thomas Bailey

$50 · Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

New York: Ridd & Carleton, 1858. 12mo 18 x 11 cm . 41 pages. Frontispiece, with tissue guard, half-title printed on recto; tailpieces, including Arabic quotations. Advertising leaf at front for Aldrich's 'A Collection of Poems. Publisher's plum blind-ruled and -monogrammed cloth. Provenance: C.B. Tillinghast bookplate, his book number 1175 . Spine and board edges sunned, pp. 20-25 with small stains in upper margins. Item #406537

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