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A CONNECTICUT GIRL'S FRIENDSHIP BOOK, 1830s.

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
A CONNECTICUT GIRL'S FRIENDSHIP BOOK, 1830s.
THE YOUNG LADY'S REMEMBRANCE. New York: J. C. Riker, 1833. With three engraved color plates, and pages for writing. The book is filled with approx. 59 handwritten entries, from 1834-1840, including two with small drawings. The book is inscribed on flyleaf: Lucy Maria Sanford, New Millford [Connecticut], (possibly Lucy Maria Sanford Bostwick, 1821-1910). 12mo (7 3/4in.) Gilt leather spine and green paper boards. Condition: Poor; half of the leather spine is missing, most leaves are detached/missing from boards; splitting and loose signatures; entries are readable, toning and foxing throughout. Together with four 18mo-16mo volumes, three with Northrop ownership inscriptions; generally Poor condition with wear, toning/foxing, soiling to covers, two with inner splitting: 1. Abbot, John C. The Mother at Home. Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1834.  2. Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. New York: The Century Co., 1904. Embossed leather cover, gilt edges. 3. Fireside Pictures. New York: American Tract Society, 1863. With line illustrations. 4. Hooker, Worthington. The Child's Book of Common Things. New Haven: Peck, White & Peck, 1858. With line illustrations. Inscribed on flyleaf: E. B. Comstock, Saybrook, Conn. With child's drawings/writing, dampstains, spine separated from signatures. This lot and the other Chapman-related items offered in this sale were part of a collection of papers and ephemera related to the Edward Mortimer Chapman (1862-1952) family, including his first wife Isabel Northrop Chapman (1864-1920), and second wife, Louise Wadsworth Jones Chapman (1873-1959). Edward M. Chapman was a Connecticut pastor, academic, and author, and a descendant of Robert Chapman, one of the first settlers of Saybrook, Connecticut (c. 1635).