A collection of familiar quotations, with complete indices of authors and subjects

by John Bartlett

$500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Cambridge: John Bartlett, 1855. First edition, 12mo, pp. vii, 1 , 295, 1 ; original blue cloth, boards decorated in blind, gilt title on spine; light wear to extremities, very good. Grolier, American 100, 64: There were nine editions in Bartlett's lifetime … This nest-egg of the mind the phrase is Christopher Morley's is as essential to the American living-room as the cook book to the American kitchen. Item #62768

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