Published by Chambers, 1856
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. HAND-BOOK OF AMERICAN LITERATURE - HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL & CRITICAL, Chambers, (ca. 1856), first edition, light wear to spine extremities, else a vg copy. An overview of American literature from 1620 to 1855 profiling such writers as Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, P. T. Barnum, George Bancroft, Ralph Waldo Emerson, et.al. Fascinating.