Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1856. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 568p.
Ex-library; REBOUND. A hardcover book that has been
rebound in tan buckram. Light smudges on cloth. Library stamp on table
of contents page. Title page and last page are tanned. Otherwise a
clean, tight book in very good condition. Item #319010
Volume
83 of THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, the first literary magazine in the
United States. This volume contains the issues for July and October
1856. Some features include a lengthy review of Washington Irving's LIFE
OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, before all five volumes were yet complete;
extensive commentary on Commodore Matthew Perry's expedition to Japan;
an early review of AT HOME AND ABROAD by Margaret Fuller; a review of A
JOURNEY THROUGH THE SEABOARD SLAVE STATES by Frederick Law Olmsted; an
analysis of "Lutetia" by Heinrich Heine; analysis of contemporary
scholarship on the Jewish people in culture and learning; and an essay
on the literary legacy of Edgar Allan Poe.