[Rarebooks] FS: 1844 Italy & the Italians, J.T. Hadley Scarce 1st ed.

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”Italy and the Italians, in A Series of Letters" by J[oel] T[yler] 
Headley. Published in New York by I.S. Platt in 1844. First edition.

Joel Tyler Headley [1813-1897] was at various times an American 
clergyman, author, historian, New York Secretary of State, and an 
associate editor of the New York Tribune. This interesting series of 
letters, one of his first published works, covers the period September, 
1842, when Headley, his health broken down after spending two and a half 
years as minister at a church in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, embarked on 
a packet for Italy, and April, 1843, when he left Italy for Switzerland. 
In his introduction he explains that some of these letters home had been 
published in newspapers, so he here collects the entire series in a 
single volume. He also explains that he concentrates on the people of 
Italy, their lives, ways and customs, rather than the more well known 
artistic sites and governmental and church matters. An expanded edition 
was published in 1845 as “Letters from Italy”, but this shorter first 
edition is quite scarce in the trade.

Disbound. 5.25”x8.25”, 64 pages. Minor soil, the gather for pages 41-48 
is cut an inch shorter than the other gathers at the bottom, but because 
of the wide margins no text is missing. [43035]  $75

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