Letters from New York. Second Series

Title: Letters from New York. Second Series

Author: Child, L. [Lydia] Maria

Publication: New York: C.S. Francis & Co., 1845.

Description: Second series of essays about New York City and related social commentary by reformer Lydia Maria Child, published two years after the first series, covering a wide range of topics from high rents, emancipation in the British West Indies, transcendentalism, prison reform, and more. First edition, second state, with Letters from New-York as first entry on p. [ii] and no terminal advertisements, as called for in BAL. Bound in publisher's full brown cloth over boards, stamped in blind and gilt. 7.5 x 5 inches; xii, [1], 14-287 pages. Gift inscription, dated 1846, on front free endpaper from Alfred E. Sloan of Syracuse, possibly Alfred Earl Sloan (1820-1902), educator and founder of schools for girls. Later acquired by Arthur Williams Hall (1873–1952) of Massachusetts, bibliophile and manufacturer of laboratory equipment, with his neat pencil notes on front pastedown; thence by descent through three generations. Binding with moderate soiling and wear, with chipping to spine ends; interior with scattered foxing. Very Good. Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Indigenous rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Some essays appear here for the first time; others were previously published in periodicals. Reference: Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, 3152.