Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical. Second Series Presentation Copy

by William Henry Foote

$175 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1855. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24.5cm). Purple cloth stamped in blind; pale yellow endpapers; [iii]-xiv, 13-596pp; engraved frontispiece portrait. Authorial presentation inscription to front pastedown to "Miss Susan Foote, Colchester, Connt., with the Compliments of the Author, A New years gift for 1855." Largely sound..... More

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