Publisher's machine stamped binding designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman of brownish mustard cloth with brown vertical rule extending from head to foot of front board, just left of center. Title within circle to the right of rule. Author's name below at foot.
Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1876-1900, 2045
Davenport Public Library Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center 2005-09 copy: Inscribed: "Jennie with the author's love 'O et praesidium et dulce decus meum.' Davenport. Oct. 17 1887." Latin phrase translates to English as "Oh, my guardian and my sweet glory," the second line of Horace's Odes, Book I. Includes notes in margins and the initials "J. M. A. C." on the front cover.
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