American Notes for General Circulation.

Dickens, Charles.

Published by London, Chapman and Hall., 1850

First single-volume edition. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece by C. Stansfield, XIII, 175 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Endpapers and pastedown with original publisher's advertising. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Unusual in this excellent and firm condition. Includes for example the following essays: An American Railroad / Lowell and it's Factory System / New York / Philadelphia, and it's Solitary Prison / Slavery / Worcester - The Connecticut River - Hartford - New Haven - To New York / Boston / Washington - The Legislature and the President's House / A Night Steamer on the Potomac River - Virginia Road and a Black Driver / Richmond - Baltimore - The Harrisburg Mail and a Glimpse of the City [of Harrisburg] / A Canal Boat [Steamboat Trip] / Some further Account of the Canal Boat, its Domestic Economy and its Passengers / From Pittsburgh to Cincinnatti in a Western Steam- Boat [describes Charles Dickens' Trip in the year 1842, aboard the Steamboat "Messenger", from Pittsburgh to Cincinnatti] / Journey to Pittsburgh across the Alleghany Mountains / From Cincinnatti to Louisville in another Western Steam-Boat; and from Louisville to St.Louis in another / A Jaunto to the Looking-Glass Prairie and back / Return to Cincinnatti - A Stage-Coach ride from that city to Columbus and thence to Sandusky - so, by Lake Erie, to the Falls of Niagara / In Canada - Toronto - Kingston - Montreal - Quebec - St.John's / in the United States again / Lebanon [Mount Lebanon - Shaker - Society - New York] / The Shaker - Village and West Point / Sprache: english. Seller Inventory # 60528AB

Bibliographic Details

Title: American Notes for General Circulation.
Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall.
Publication Date: 1850
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition