April 12, 2024
RARE 1839 SIGNED LYDIA SIGOURNEY HARTFORD POETRY GIRLS
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RARE 1839 SIGNED LYDIA SIGOURNEY HARTFORD POETRY GIRLS The Girl’s Reading-Book; In Prose and Poetry for Schools . By Mrs. L. H. Sigourney. Ninth Edition. New York: Published by J. Orville Taylor, at the “American Common School Union” No. 128 Fulton-Street. 1839. Signed. 274 pages. [2] pages of “Notices” at rear. Interior remains tight, clean and complete. Pages with some toning and spotting remain better than average. Signed on the 2nd fep.. Publishers 1/4 leather exterior with some wear and scuffing remains better than average. Title and author in gilt at backstrip remains bright and fresh. Some minor wear and rubbing to the head and toe of bacsktrip. Everything being said volume remains better than average. A fantastic find for the collector.Not common.“To Ellen E. Moore Presented by the authorby therequestof Mrs. E. Wittard is a reward for diligence and improvement in the use of the needle in thesummer of 1840”7.25 by4.50 inches.“The nineteenth century had an insatiable appetite for mawkish poetry, and this appetite was catered to in Connecticut by Lydia Sigourney, the "Sweet Singer of Hartford." The Romantic period was intoxicated with the power of verse, and even the best poets, like Shelley or Wordsworth, often approached the edge of bathos. Lesser poets, like Mrs. Sigourney, knew no limits.”“She was born Lydia Huntley, the
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