Common Sense In Dishabille: or, the Farmer s Monitor. Containing a Variety of Familiar Essays, on Subjects Moral & Economical, to which is added a Perpetual Calendar, or Economical Almanack

Everett, David

Published by Worcester, Massachusetts: By Isaiah Thomas, Jun. for Isaiah Thomas. Sold at the Worcester Bookstore.--, March, 1799

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Hardcover. 12mo (6.5" x 4"), quarter calf, original blue sugar paper over boards. vi, [1], [8] 120 pp. Early ownership inscriptions of "Nathl. Storrs" in ink at ffep. Ownership inscriptions also at top of title page, preface, contents, and first page of text. Author s name added in manuscript at end of preface. CONDITION: Fair, spine and covers worn, 2.25" split to front hinge, loss to paper at extremities of covers, 2.25" crack in front board, some worming to front pastedown, small wormhole to center of first 25 pgs., toning from rear board to last few leaves. First edition. Ownership inscription at ffep reads: "Nathl. Storrs N. Storrs, Danvers June 1800, N. Nathl. Storrs Let not the music of the spinning wheel cease for want of flax Virtue is the highest exercise and improvement of union. N Storrs, Danvers." Owner "Nathaniel Storrs" was a member of the Storrs family, who had settled in Mansfield, Connecticut, in 1698. There are two notable Nathaniels in the family, one born in 1747, and his son, born in 1774. This book was most likely owned by Nathaniel Storrs, Jr., as he was the principal at the High School of Danvers, Massachusetts, in the 1800s, and like the author, graduated from Dartmouth. Nathaniel s father was a farmer in Lebanon and Hanover, New Hampshire. Author David Everett (1770 1813) was a Dartmouth-educated newspaper editor and lawyer. He established and edited the Boston Patriot, a semi-weekly paper devoted to the Democratic Party, which printed John Adams anti-Federalist essays after his term in office. Everett was also an essayist, poet, and occasional playwright, as seen in this volume. It is more than likely that Everett and Storrs knew each other, as the former graduated from Dartmouth in 1795, and the latter in 1796. REFERENCES: Evans 35454; Storrs, Charles. The Storrs Family: Genealogical and other Memoranda. Privately Printed. New York, 1896; "David Everett" at Texas A&M University Libraries online; "Early American Newspapers: Selected Newspaper Descriptions by State" at Readex Newsbank online.

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• Title: Common Sense In Dishabille: or, the Farmer s Monitor. Containing a Variety of Familiar Essays, on Subjects Moral & Economical, to which is added a Perpetual Calendar, or Economical Almanack
• Publisher: Worcester, Massachusetts: By Isaiah Thomas, Jun. for Isaiah Thomas. Sold at the Worcester Bookstore.--, March, 1799
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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