£3,024
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs ft. the Library of the Late William St Clair Pt II | 712
Auction: 28 September 2022 at 11:00 BST
or Essays on the Formation of the Human Character. New-Harmony: printed at the office of the New-Harmony Gazette, for the Community, 1825. ?First American edition, 8vo, 115pp., contemporary half calf, slightly wormed in lower margin, occasionally extending into text at end, rebacked, some dampstaining, tiny hole to last leaf affecting one word
Note: Other American editions were published in 1825 by E. Bliss & E. White in New York and by Lumen Watson in Cincinnati, but as this edition was published and printed in New Harmony, the utopian community established by Owen at New Harmony, Indiana, in 1825, it most probably takes priority over the other two editions.
Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.