Notes of Travel and Life

New York: Published for the Authors, 1854. Hardcover. Good. First edition. 288pp. Brown cloth (also seen in blue cloth), spine stamped in gilt. Light bookplate remnants on front pastedown, dampstains on boards, pages and endpapers, sunned spine, good only. A travel narrative, in the form of fifty-two letters, by two women book "peddlers" telling of their travels through the Atlantic states and Canada in 1853. They funded their expedition working as subscription booksellers (which was a standard bookselling method of the time), and their letters include first hand accounts of their experiences in New York, parts of Canada, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Virginia and North Carolina, including their views on slavery and the rights of women. (Inventory #: 517617)