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Domestic Manners of the Americans Hardcover - 1832

by Trollope, Mrs. [Frances M.]

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London & New York: Whittaker, Treacher, & Co, 1832. 1st. Hardcover. Hervieu, Auguste. Complete in One Volume. Reprinted for the Booksellers. First American Edition. 8vo. viii, 325pp. 8 black & white tissue-guarded plates by Auguste Hervieu. Original blue-green cloth covered boards; titles to paper label on the spine. Moderate wear to extremities, more so to spine ends and corners with boards starting to show; wear and chipping to papel label; dampstaining to boards; decorative owner bookplate; a good copy. First published in London in 2 vols with 24 plates, this book has August Hervieu's 8 satirical plates. "...an 1832 travel book by Frances Trollope, which follows her travels through America and her residence in Cincinnati, at the time still a frontier town. [...] The book created a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic, as Frances Trollope had a caustic view of the Americans and found America strongly lacking in manners and learning." - Wikipedia. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.
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