Author: Grattan, Thomas Colley
Title: Civilized America Volume I [ only]
Description: Bradbury & Evans, 11 Bouverie Street, 1859, 2nd edition. Disbound, P. xxiv+v-xx+444pp, coloured map, LACKS both boards, spine partly missing, a reading copy. Ex Libris Thomas Hele Phipps from his friend James C Twine? on his leaving Eton, Easter 1866. Disbound , no dustjacket. ¶ An odd volume of the Irish born traveller & writer Thomas Colley Grattan's [ 1792 - 1864 ] 'practical essay on a great nation' which begins with his voyage from England in 1839 and then meanders through many topics, historical, political & anecdotal.

Keywords: history, american history, travel