Headley, J. T.

ITALY AND THE ITALIANS IN A SERIES OF LETTERS, TOGETHER WITH LETTERS FROM ITALY [bound with THE ALPS AND THE RHINE A SERIES OF SKETCHES]

New York: I. S. Platt (for the first above item); Wiley and Putnam (for the second item, an expansion of the first), 1844 and 1846, respectively. First Editions, First Printings. No binding and Hardcover. Good to Very Good or better copies of two works, the first having been disbound (presumably from a larger volume, and the second housed in the remnants of a plain and privately-made dust jacket, with the spine mostly lacking (a small piece of which has been loosely laid in, and with the portions to the boards having been affixed to themselves (but not discernibly to the volume itself) too tightly to be removed without tearing them. The Author, Joel Tyler Headley (1814-1897), a member of the American Party, served as the Secretary of State for the State of New York for the year 1856. He had a varied career, working as a clergyman, historian, author, newspaper editor, adventurer and, of course, a politician. Headley graduated from Seminary and began his preaching career in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Finding the work too straining, he left for Europe in 1842 and began to write as a Historian. His best-known work is "The Chaplains and Clergy of the Revolution". He eventually accepted the invitation of Horace Greeley to become Associate Editor of The New York Tribune. The 1846 volume belonged to Charles H. Shultz as evidence by three images which, on our proprietary Allington Books listing. Both of the books named in the title section of this listing are QUITE SCARCE INDEED. Good and Very Good or Very Good +. Item #3502

Price: $425.00