1827 Charles Brockden Brown Arthur Mervyn Volume II Publisher’s Boards

Description: Charles Brockden Brown was an early American writer, noted as one of the most important and popular writers of the era. His novels placed his protagonists into a stressful situation as a way to demonstrate virtuous behaviors and historical relationships between individual behaviors and larger events. Arthur Mervyn is about a man who is found suffering from yellow fever who is taken in by a local doctor and tells the story of his life after leaving his country home to try life in the big city. In good condition, the book has written on the first spare, “Presented byWm. L. Brown/ to Edm. Draper./June 27, 1839”. Pages are untrimmed and the boards the original publisher’s boards. Part of an edition of Brown’s novels put out posthumously. Good Condition: 12mo: (8” x 5 1/8”): drab publisher's boards with paper label on spine: light soiling to the boards: bent corners with some loss of coverage: cloth spine intact with discoloration to the paper label: fading to the cloth spine: softening of the tail: paper label from “The Museum” and other magazines inside the front: pencil on ffep: foxing, spotting, browning to the paper: inscription on first spare: untrimmed pages: “Arthur Mervyn; or Memoirs of the Year 1793”: by Charles Brockden Brown: “Vol. II”: Boston: Published by S.G. Goodrich: Isaac R Butts & Co, Printers: 1827RAREA1828ABFA

Price: 150 USD

Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

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