TRYON, Warren S. (Compiled & Edited by)

A Mirror for Americans. Life and Manners in the United States, 1790-1870 as Recorded by American Travelers. In Three Volumes. I: Life in the East. II: The Cotton Kingdom. III: The Frontier Moves West.

Chicago. The University of Chicago Press. 1952. Hardcover. 24cm, xx,v,viii,v,viii,793,vpp., 3 frontispieces, chapter heading & text illustrations, illustrated endpapers, indexes, illustrated beige cloth, fine in fine jackets (b1). - Observations of impressions and facts about life in the United States in the first hundred years of the Republic. Noted as the first such anthology-by Americans- to be published. Item #18942

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