Published by Richard Bentley, London, 1850
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
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Leather_bound. Condition: Fair. 422p. A 3/4 leather hardcover book with marbled boards. Hinges worn but secure; corners and spine ends worn and lightly scuffed. Paper on boards has some fine scratch marks. BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY MARY LOWELL PUTNAM on front endpaper; her initials embossed into rear leather panel of the spine, and "Putnam Library" embossed into the front leather panel. Punam Library blindstamp on title page; there are no further ex-libris markings. LACKS the rear free endpaper; rear gutter is cracked but cover and pages remain attached. Text clean and binding secure. In overall nice shape for its age. From the library of Mary Lowell Putnam, with her signature. She was an American author and the sister of James Russell Lowell. Mary Lowell Putnam's son died in the American Civil War and she established a library in his honor at the National Veterans Home in Dayton, Ohio. The library was founded with books from her library, of which this is one. The Putnam Library was dispersed during renovation of the Home following her death.