VIRGINIA ILLUSTRATED: A VISIT TO THE VIRGINIAN CANAAN, AND THE ADVENTURES OF PORTE CRAYON AND HIS COUSINS

by David Hunter Strother, Pseudonym Porte Crayon, Bindings

$4,500 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

First edition · Signed

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857 . 250 x 155 mm. 9 3/4 x 6 . 300, 4 ads pp. FIRST EDITION. EXCELLENT MODERN MAROON CRUSHED MOROCCO BY MONIQUE LALLIER signed on front turn-in , covers and smooth spine with wrap-around inlays of green, tan, ivory, and marbled pink leathers, some textured, in an undulating pattern evocative of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, gilt lettering at

• Binding: Leather

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