Author: Freeman Hunt, ed
Title: Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review: Volume 34 (January-June 1856)
Description: New York, Freeman Hunt, 1856. 1st Edition. Leather. 784p. Ex-library hardcover book bound in full golden-brown leather. Boards rubbed and crack forming along front edge of spine. The spine is dried out and crumbling; the spine labels are held on with clear tape. Pages toned with age. Library stamp on title page, but otherwise, text unmarked and binding tight. A good reading copy. Volume 34 of this journal of commerce, agriculture, banking, and business in 19th-century America. The monthly issues span January through June 1856. This copy contains the small bookplate of Lorenzo Bull, a distinguished early citizen of Quincy, Illinois. This volume of the magazine features a study of labor conditions in the 1850s and an analysis of the 7th U.S. census. At the end of each issue is a section of book reviews -- included are short reviews of Walt Whitman's LEAVES OF GRASS upon its initial anonymous publication; BALLADS by William Makepeace Thackeray; RACHEL GRAY by Julia Kavanagh; MEN AND WOMEN by Robert Browning; A JOURNEY IN THE SEABOARD SLAVE STATES by Frederick Law Olmsted; and POEMS by Charles Kingsley. Fair .

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