Edmund and Margaret: or, Sobriety and Faithfulness Rewarded
by [RELIGIOUS FICTION - TEMPERANCE] ANONYMOUS
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge: Printed for the Trustees of the Publishing Fund, by Hilliard and Metcalf, 1822. First Edition. 12mo (17cm.); disbound; 60pp. Light soil, else Very Good or better. Moralistic tale establishing the "basic situation often used in later temperance fiction--a marriage threatened by the husband's drinking habit" (David S. Reynolds and Debra J. Rosenthal, "The Serpent in the Cup" (1997), p. 24). We find this title published later for the London Christian Tract Society under the authorship of "A.H." SHOEMAKER 8597; WRIGHT I 893.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45554
- Title
- Edmund and Margaret: or, Sobriety and Faithfulness Rewarded
- Author
- [RELIGIOUS FICTION - TEMPERANCE] ANONYMOUS
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Printed for the Trustees of the Publishing Fund, by Hilliard and Metcalf
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1822
- Bookseller catalogs
- Temperance; Literature Before 1900;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 12mo
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