AN ATHENIAN [Geo. Forster Beck].

Life in Town, or The Boston Spy.

Boston: Redding, 1844.

Being a Series of Sketches Illustrative of Whims and Women in the 'Athens of America'. Hand-colored frontispiece, 2 additional colored plates. 56pp., short thin 4to, original dark brown moire silk (rebacked in plain brown cloth; scattered foxing). Boston: Redding and Company, 1844.

Very scarce. Contains chapters on Sewing Circles, Popular Lectures, and Fancy Fairs.

Binding: Hardcover
Language: English

Price: $1,000.00

Item #145932

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