Item #54186 Reply to a pamphlet recently circulated by Mr. Edward Brooks. John Amory Lowell.

Reply to a pamphlet recently circulated by Mr. Edward Brooks

Boston: Freeman and Bolles, 1848. 8vo, pp. [4], 211, [1]; original tan printed wrappers; binding a bit skewed, short tears at the bottom of the front joint; all else near fine. With a presentation at the top of the upper wrapper: "Chas. R. Codintes [?] Esq. / with the regards of / J. A. Lowell." Reply to charges against the memory of J.W. Boott as published in Correspondence between Edward Brooks and John A. Lowell, with Remarks by Edward Brooks. Boott was Lowell’s old employer and partner, and committed suicide in 1845, leaving Lowell as the executor of his estate. There was much dissent in the Bootts family and they attempted, unsuccessfully, to set the will aside, which lead to a further rejoinder by Brooks which appeared in 1851 with a whopping 855-page count. Sabin 42465. All six of the OCLC records are microforms or computer files. Not that this is any indication of rarity, but I can't find any record of sale back to 1945 where it brought $7 at a Parke-Bernet auction. Surely the edition was rather small. Item #54186

Price: $375.00

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