WINE OR WATER. A TALE OF NEW ENGLAND

Boston:Abel Tompkins, Brown and Taggard. 1862. 1st edition. 354pp+6pp ads. Illustrated with chapter headings. Hardcover.  Blindstamped green boards, decorated with gilt on covers and title in gilt on spine strip, lightly soiled and shelfworn, with wear to edges (to boards in places on bottom edges), spine ends worn and starting to fray, and edge points worn to boards. All page edges gilt.  Internally, yellow end-pages slightly age-toned, with initials and the number 3 to inside front board, but otherwise clean. Pages throughout are slightly age-toned but aside from an occasional smudge are clean. The binding is tight with hinges intact.  *Wright II:2286.