Click for full-size.
Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands
by Sigourney, Lydia Howard
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Newark, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston, MA: James Munroe and Company, 1843. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. viii, 368 pp. Bound in green cloth, title and decoration in gilt on spine, blind decoration to front and back covers. Black and white frontispiece and half title illustrations. Added title page dated 1843. Known as the "Sweet Singer of Hartford", Sigourney (1791-1865) was a successful and popular poet, travel writer and essayist during her lifetime. Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands is an account, in poetry and prose, of her travels through Great Britain in 1840 and her visits with William Wordsworth, Joanna Baillie, Samuel Rogers, Thomas Carlyle and Maria Edgeworth. Very Good, mild fading to spine, rubbing to corners and head and tail of spine, inscription in pencil on front free endpaper, discoloration to middle of front free endpaper and front pastedown, small brown stain to text of pages 159-170, small brown stain to margins of pages 287-312. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Garnet Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000173
- Title
- Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands
- Author
- Sigourney, Lydia Howard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- James Munroe and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1843
- Keywords
- Poetry Travel Great Britain
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Garnet Books
30 day return guarantee. Full refund for up to 30 days after delivery, If an item arrives misdescribed or damaged, shipping costs will also be refunded.
About the Seller
Garnet Books
Biblio member since 2008
Newark, New Jersey
About Garnet Books
Selling used books online since 2007.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
This Book’s Categories
Collectible Christmas Cards
Many of us love giving and receiving holiday cards - but did you know many of them are highly collectible? Whether signed by famous authors or just beautiful to look at, these collectible Christmas cards are sure to put a twinkle in your eye.
What did people buy in 2020?
Plague journals, escapist literature, political history: explore our year in review, where we share rare book trends and a gallery of some of the most beautiful and interesting books sold in 2020.
