Portraits of my Married Friends

inscribed First Edition written by the American author Rhoda Waterman White under the pseudonym Uncle Ben. Handsome blue cloth tooled in decorative gilt to upper, lower and spine; just a little shelf worn but a square and very sound copy with very good gilt text block edges. Vibrant pink and blue patterned endpapers fresh and unmarked. Inscribed by author to front flyleaf, ‘To Mary Charnock, from the author, Mrs Rhoda E White, with my kindest wish. 17th December 1865’. An additional inscription from a mother to a daughter is dated 1895. Frontispiece illustration protected by original tissue guard. A couple of small brown spots to preliminaries. Text block crisp and unmarked throughout; 343pp plus advertisements. A very pleasing copy.