BULFINCH THOMAS The Age of Fable; or Stories of Gods and Her

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BULFINCH, THOMAS. The Age of Fable; or, Stories of Gods and Heroes. Frontispiece by Smith Pierson, text illustrations, with advertisement leaf for Bulfinch's Hebrew Lyrics. 8vo, original mauve cloth blindstamped with an all-over lozenge decoration, ornamental center design, spine gilt lettered and decorated, some discoloration and fading, slight rubbing and fraying; yellow-cream endpapers; small paper loss in blank outer margins of two leaves; slight offsetting from bookplate on endpaper; preserved in maroon morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. Boston: Sanborn, Carter, and Bazin, 1855

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first edition, first state with names of both the printer and the stereotyper on copyright page. Provenance: Frank Sheridan, with his bookplate, ex-collection Richard Manney, sold at his sale (Sotheby's New York, Oct. 11, 1991, lot 30). Grolier American 65; Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 13.