Richard Edney and the governor's family. A rus-urban tale simple and popular, yet cultured and noble, of morals, sentiment, and life, practically treated and pleasantly illustrated, containing, also hints on being good and doing good
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1850. 468p., original cloth binding worn along the edges, spine backstripe partly detached but present, spine slightly sloped, minor foxing, first edition. *Wright 1513.
Features a sawmill worker, and his failed romance with a textile worker. "The author treats his readers to long discursive essays on the city, nature, religion and other philosophical topics but manages to describe in some detail the workings a saw mill." *Blake p. 208.
Cat.No: 91228
Price: $125.00
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