Athens: Its Rose and Fall; with Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and Social Life of the Athenian People

by Simms’S Copy, Edward Lytton Bulwer

$1,250 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Signed

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1860. Reprint first published by Harper in 1837 . 12mo. 275, 324 pp. Simms’s copy with his ownership signature on the front endpaper and inscribed by him on the title page “W. Gilmore Simms / Woodlands / S.C.” Woodlands, Simms’s home in Bamberg County, South Carolina, where is library was housed, was pillaged and destroyed by Union troops, on Sherman’s 1865 march through the Carolinas, though Simms

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