[Rarebooks] fs: Women of the South, 1861

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 8865 )  Forrest, Mary [pseudonym of Mrs. Julia Deane Freeman]. WOMEN OF 
THE SOUTH DISTINGUISHED IN LITERATURE. ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS ON STEEL.
New York: Derby & Jackson, 1861. First printing, Full leather, Octavo, 
[viii], v-vi, ix-xvi, 13-511 pages, engraved plates. Good.
      Scarce first edition of this review of the South's female authors, 
published on the very cusp of the Civil War. Includes extracts and 
biographical sketches for Catharine Anne Warfield, Almira Lincoln Phelps, 
Marion Harland, Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie, Eleanor Percy Lee, Georgiana A. 
Hulse McLeod, Lizzie Petit, Octavia Walton Le Vert and many others. Seven of 
these ladies are portrait on full page steel-engraved plates with tissue 
guards. The book is bound in leather over bevelled boards with filigree 
borders stamped in black and titles stamped in gilt on both boards, spine 
lettered in gilt with five raised bands, gilt decorated endpapers, all edges 
gilt. The binding shows rubs to edges, chipping to heel of spine, lower 
joint is split. Prior owner bookplate on front pastedown and a bit of 
scattered foxing inside.    $150.00
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