An Epistle to Posterity; Being Rambling Recollections of Many Years of My Life by Sherwood, M. E. W. (Sherwood, Mary Elizabeth Wilson) - 1897

New York: London.: Harper & Brothers., 1897. Same date, copyright and title pages. No print line.. Hard cover. Fine. Signed by previous owner.. 1 First edition. A high quality volume, light brown buckram cloth, gold cover decorations, border, central flying egret title box. x p., 1 L., 380 p. Deckled outside page block. Sepia frontispiece w/ tissue, author facsimile signature. Gilt top page block. Original: 19th century autobiography: Raised in Peterborough and Keene, New Hampshire, author's peers were the father and grandfather of Daniel Webster, and Emerson's School at Boston. From an accomplished family, she writes of them, her travels, literature. Her are accounts of England, Washington DC, Italy, Spain, all the while observing fashion, social customs, literature, and raising 2 boys.