TAGHCONIC, Or; Letters and Legends About Our Summer Home.
Boston: Redding and Company, 8 State Street. 1852. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original brown cloth, decorative borders and an arabesque design blindstamped on front & rear panels, spine panel lettered in gilt and ruled in blind. 228 pp. Blindstamp of a previous owner on front free endpaper, along with the attractive bookplate of Barbara Muriel Collins (a book lighthouse!) on the same leaf; older ownership signature of "Wm. Henry Bergen, Brooklyn, L.I." affixed to front paste-down; a few small internal stains. Wear to cloth at spine ends and corners, mild dampstaining to lower corners with faint tidemarks to first few preliminary and terminal leaves. A good to very good, sound copy of a very scarce book. Item #313454
¶ A travel guide dedicated to 'Summer Rambles in the Berkshire Hills", with mentions visits to the homes of several authors, including Oliver Wendell Holmes & Herman Melville; with a long section devoted to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Mentions of Emerson and Longfellow. Herman Melville made mention of this work in a letter to Hawthorne dated 25 Oct, 1852: "Among others you figure in it, & I also... it is a 'Guide Book' to the Berkshires". 'Godfrey Greylock' is the pseudonym of J. E. A. Smith, 1822-1896).
Price (CAD): $455.00