Solyman and Almena. An Oriental Tale

by John Langhorne

$375 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Second American edition. 168 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original sheep, red leather spine label. Contemporary ownership inscription of John Ingraham on the title page. Evans 35710. Item #376182 A moralistic pseudo-oriental tale, first published in England in 1762, and in an American edition in 1796. Langhorne's “chief delight is to moralize and philosophize in a gentle and leisurely fashion … broken by

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