Lot 291
BINDING. H. MORE The Works ... in 2 vols. Phila: 1830

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[Mrs. SIGOURNEY]. - Hannah MORE. The Works ... in two volumes.

Offered for sale by Adam Langlands of 'Shadowrock Rare Books' - for more information please contact him via email at adamlanglands@gmail.com 

[Mrs. SIGOURNEY (1791-1865)]. - Hannah MORE (1745-1833). The Works of Hannah More, with a sketch of her life [by Lydia Howard Sigourney]. Philadelphia: published by J.J. Woodward, 1830. 2 volumes, octavo (8 ¾ x 5 1/2in; 223 x 140mm). Pp. [1]-2-15[-16], [i-iii]-iv-xii, [13-]14-560 ;  [i-iii-]iv, [5]-6-608.  Engraved portrait frontispiece of the author after H.W. Pickersgill, wood-engraved title vignettes. (Spotted, as often.) Contemporary leather binding (somewhat spotted and scuffed).

A lifetime edition of More’s works: a version of S.G. Goodrich’s Boston edition of 1827 with Lydia Sigourney’s short biographical survey of the author, and a characterful portrait by Oliver Pelton after Pickersgill. Vol.I starts with 16pp of publisher’s advertisements.