FRENCH WINES AND POLITICS, OR CHARLES AND ANTOINE LUCYON; A TALE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
Martineau, Harriet:
Hartford: S. Andrus and Co., 1845. [4],189pp. Small octavo. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth, spine elaborately decorated in gilt. Some spotting to fore- edges and endsheets, otherwise a nice, bright copy. A reprinting of what Gabler describes as "probably the first wine novel published in the United States." It was, preceded by the 1833 and following British editions, as part of the ILLUSTRATIONS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY sequence, an 1833 Boston printing and an 1843 printing by Andrus. GABLER 29820.
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