TROLLOPE, Frances Milton.
Domestic Manners of The Americans.
First Edition of Mrs. Frances Milton Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans
New York: Whittaker, Treacher & Co, 1832.
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First American edition of this critical travel analysis, complete in one volume. Octavo, bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, tissue-guarded lithographic frontispiece of political cartoon 'Ancient and Modern Republics,' illustrated with eight tissue-guarded lithographic plates designed by August Hervieu. From the collection of Shane Leslie with his bookplate to the pastedown and two typed letters of provenance addressed to him laid in. In good condition with some rubbing to the spinal extremities and toning to the front free endpaper and plates.
Following Frances Milton Trollope's travel through America, 'Domestic Manners of the Americans' provides a complete and critical analysis of American personalities, education, and views on slavery, written with humor and descriptive skill. "Mrs Trollope was so handsomely cursed and reviled by this nation [for] telling the truth ... she was painting a state of things which did not change at once ... I remember it" (Mark Twain).
Domestic Manners of The Americans.
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