Ten Years in Washington. Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman Sees Them.

Hartford: A.D. Worthington & Co., 1877. Hardcover. 8vo. Original purple cloth, ornate gilt spine. xx, 587pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Good only. Edgeworn and rough, with slight chipping at head and tail of spine, which is rather sunned (though gilt lettering fully legible); inner hinges delicate though expertly, archivally strengthened. Internally a strong "Very good." Item #33466

Later printing, a decent and handleable copy of this popular account that Nevins' bibliographer John T. Hubbell critiqued as a "Superficial description of Washington and its people during the Civil War era." NEVINS II,119.

Price: $40.00

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