Product Description
260p, octavo.
A fine copy in a very good + dust jacket, with minor rubbing and wear to edges.
Small piece of tape on verso of jacket.
This copy is INSCRIBED by the author to the previous owner on the title page.
Additionally included is a 2pg handwritten letter discussing business matters addressed to Godfrey Barnsley (1805-1873), a British-American business man and cotton broker who prior to the Civil War became one of the wealthiest men in the American South.
In the 1840's Barnsley began building a large estate and gardens on a 10,000 acre plot (now known as Barnsley Gardens in Adairsville, Georgia) for his wife Julia Scarborough, who tragically died before it completion in 1845 from tuberculosis.
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