Author: Freeman Hunt, ed
Title: Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review: Volume 39 (July-December 1858)
Description: New York, Freeman Hunt, 1858. 1st Edition. Leather. 776p. Ex-library hardcover book bound in full golden-brown leather. FAIR condition. Boards rubbed, spine chipped, and front cover cracking off. The spine labels are held on with clear tape. Pages toned and foxed with age. Bottom corners dampstained. Library stamp on title page, but otherwise, text unmarked and binding tight. An acceptable reading copy. Volume 39 of this journal of commerce, agriculture, banking, and business in 19th-century America. The monthly issues span July through December 1858. This copy contains the small bookplate of Lorenzo Bull, a distinguished early citizen of Quincy, Illinois. This volume of the magazine features an article on European immigration to the U.S. statistics of slave labor in St. Mary's Parish in Louisiana, and multiple articles on steamship commerce, such as on the Erie Canal. At the end of each issue is a section of book reviews -- included are short reviews of the autobiography of Josiah Henson, an escaped slave who founded a community of free blacks in Canada and likely served as the inspiration for the main character of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN (this review is for an expanded edition with a preface by Harriet Beecher Stowe); and THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Fair .

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