Item #18816 Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Susan Huntington, of Boston Massachusetts, Consisting Primarily of Extracts from her Journal and Letters; with the Sermon Occasioned by her Death. Susan Huntington, Benjamin B. Wisner.

Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Susan Huntington, of Boston Massachusetts, Consisting Primarily of Extracts from her Journal and Letters; with the Sermon Occasioned by her Death.

York: Printed by W. Alexander and Son, Castlegate, [et al.], 1828. First English edition. 8vo, early dark plum-brown straight grained morocco, red leather label, gilt decorations to the boards and spine, iv, 372 pages, all edges marbled. Evidence of a damp-stain at the foot of the spine and a portion of the boards; small, closed tear to the spine label; some light rubbing to the board edges; a very good copy. Item #18816

The memoirs of a well-read, thoughtful, and pious American woman, Susan Mansfield Huntington (1791-1823), widow of the minister of the Old South Church in Boston, her memoir first published in Boston in 1826. The memoir includes a section of five of Huntington’s poems. Small later mounted label on the front paste-down.

Price: $150.00

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