Domestic Manners of the Americans
by Trollope, Mrs
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good overall
- Seller
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Garrison, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Whittaker, Treacher & Co, 1832. Second edition. Hardcover. Good overall. Account of Frances Milton Trollope (mother of writer Anthony Trollope) of her 1827 trip to America, including a visit to the utopian Tennessee community of Nashoba founded to educate & emancipate slaves, and her stay in Cincinnati. An early critique of American exceptionalism.
8vo, 304pp; 303pp, illustrations throughout. Original publisher's dark blue cloth, printed paper title labels at spine. Spines sunned and labels dusty; chipped top of spine. Internally, frontispiece Vol I detached but present. Previous owner stamp at front end papers. Fox spotting to margins of a few plates.
8vo, 304pp; 303pp, illustrations throughout. Original publisher's dark blue cloth, printed paper title labels at spine. Spines sunned and labels dusty; chipped top of spine. Internally, frontispiece Vol I detached but present. Previous owner stamp at front end papers. Fox spotting to margins of a few plates.
Synopsis
Domestic Manners of the Americans is an 1832 travel book by Frances Trollope, which follows her travels through America and her residence in Cincinnati, at the time still a frontier town.
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- Bookseller
- Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24553
- Title
- Domestic Manners of the Americans
- Author
- Trollope, Mrs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good overall
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second edition
- Publisher
- Whittaker, Treacher & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1832
- Bookseller catalogs
- FOREIGN TRAVEL;
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Garrison, New York
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