Microscope Edited Fraternity Gentlemen (1 results)

Leather. Condition: Very Good. Contemporary tan calf, marbled sides, red leather label, git lettering. Foxing to pages. Minor professional restoration. Elegant illustrations. 200 pages. Contains prose, poetry and essays written by a group of New Haven literati and edited by Cornelius Tuthill, with an index at the conclusion, identifying the contributors as Henry E. Dwight, Nathaniel Chauncey, and James Percival. The contents include over 40 original poems, literary criticism, letters from the Western country (Ohio), prose sketches and general essays - including a series on the nature and character of dandies and an account of Mrs. Tabitha Busybody, "the she-politician." (Scans available upon request.) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.