[Item #49620] Keeper's Travels in Search of His Master. Edward Augustus KENDALL, attr., printer Lydia Bailey.

Keeper's Travels in Search of His Master

Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner, 1808. First Thus. 24mo (14cm.); publisher's drab paper-covered boards, all edges speckled; vi,[7]-87pp.; woodcut frontispiece. Chipping with shallow loss along extremities, spine paper partly perished, front hinge rather weak but holding; overall Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound.

A tale of a dog separated from his master, first published in 1798. This edition one of the earliest works printed by Lydia Bailey (1779-1869), who first began managing her late husband's printshop in the same year 1808. NIPPS ("Lydia Bailey: A Checklist") 7; SHAW & SHOEMAKER 15353; WELCH 723.4.

Price: $175.00

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