First edition.
Octavo.
222pp.
Brown cloth stamped in gilt.
Slight fraying to spine ends, spot of very slight discoloration on front cover, a very good copy.
Inscribed by the author in pencil, on the front flyleaf: "Mrs.
Matilda Wilmarth, From her friend, The Authoress.
Aug, 1877.
" Very was the sister of the noted Transcendentalist poet Jones Very, and the friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
First of the author's two books.