Boston / Cambridge: Ticknor and Fields / University Press: Welch, Bigelow, and Company, 1864. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2353278

First edition (BAL 8829). Spine toned, boards edges a bit faded, ink name on front flyleaf, bookplate remnant and 1 inch internal chip from front endpaper. Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked.

468, 22 pp. Original purple cloth, gilt titles, blind-stamped borders. A collection of essays by the author of The Autocraft of the Breakfast Table, who was friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, etc., and a regular contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, which he named. Interesting features include an illustration of a prosthetic leg, and an essay about stereoscopy and stereography. Includes: Bread and the Newspaper; My Hunt After 'The Captain'; The Stereoscope and the Stereograph; Sun-Painting and Sun-Sculpture; with a Stereoscopic Trip Across the Atlantic; Doings of the Sunbeam; The Human Wheel, Its Spokes and Felloes; A Visit to the Autocrat's Landlady; A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters; The Great Instrument; The Inevitable Trial.

Price: $35.00