?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
Rowe, Elizabeth Singer (1674-1737) Devout Exercises of the Heart.
New York: Printed by Tiebout & O'Brien for E. Mitchell, [1795].
Miniature imprint, 32mo, illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait of Rowe by Peter Maverick, 65 Liberty Street; engraved title printed on wove paper, portrait and title printed on a contiguous sheet; text leaves printed on laid paper; ownership inscription of Rebekah Welding [Welden] dated 17 August 1795 on ffep, with the price in the same hand, "2/6"; with dated signatures of several later generations of Welden women, bookseller's ad on verso of last leaf; unidentified broadside offprint, "Hymn IX, Praise for Daily Mercies," pasted inside back board; a large copy, with final integral blank present, bound in contemporary half sheepskin with pink patterned paper decorated with black polka dots, worn, front joint cracked, 3 3/4 x 2 1/8 in.
Rare, ESTC lists two U.S. copies only, both in Philadelphia; Bristol B9275; Shipton & Mooney 47583; Rosenbach, Children's Books 200; last auction copy offered in 1914.
