[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce 1881 title with Original Photograph and two poems related to Photography

[Charles Agvent]

MEREDITH,  Harriet.  SKETCHES,   LIFE  THOUGHTS  AND   INCIDENTS.
Philadelphia:  J. B. Lippincott 1881. First Edition. 179 pp. Bound  in
full,   blind-stamped  publisher's  morocco   and  illustrated  with a
carte-de-visite  photograph  of the author by P. Gutekunst  tipped  to
the  verso of the front free endpaper, likely as issued. The only copy
of  this  book we were able to locate, at Brown University,  makes  no
mention  of  a photograph. Includes at least two poems  touching  upon
photography--"A    Group   of  Cartes-de-Visite"   and   "Lines   on a
Photographic  Group  of  Authors." Some rubbing to binding,  but  Near
Fine, contents bright.                                         $250.00

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