£100 - £150
Anon, The Dead Letter Office; and a Tale for the English Farmer's Fire-side, two volume set, first and only edition, London: Printed for B. Crosby and Co, by C. Baldwin, n.d. [1811], lacking half-titles (if called for?), volume I title-page cropped with loss of the first word of the title (i.e. THE), [iv], 262, [2]pp (publisher's advert); [iv], 251, [4]pp (publisher's advert), vol. II quire M loose but attached, contemporary calf over marbled boards, some surface wear, with corners bumped &/or split, but good and holding, uncut, 12mo, (2)
Scarce. Attributed at times to the female authors Mrs. E.G. Bayfield, Mrs. E.M. Foster, or J.H. James.
Provenance: the Westropp family of Long Melford, Sufffolk; contemporary ink manuscript ownership inscription to volume II title, clipped-erasure from volume I, their shelf-numbering to both volumes' spines and recto pastedowns.
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