Philadelphia: Towar and Hogan, 1826. Good. Item #47587

Philadelphia, PA: Published and for sale by Towar and Hogan, No. 255, Market Street, 1826. First Smart Edition. Octavo (22cm); full contemporary sheep, red gilt spine label; xxviii,394pp. Leather significantly dried, scratched and rubbed at margins, old repair to front hinge, uneven and at times quite heavy foxing throughout. Good only.

First edition of this American textbook of the speeches of Cicero in the original Latin with the editor's accompanying notes in English. The copyright page boasts a recommendation of Smart's manuscript to the publishers Towar and Hogan, signed in text by Samuel D. Wylie, insisting that "many [American teachers'] pupils are too indolent, not to say ignorant, to peruse the Latin notes for themselves...all helps, introductory to the acquaintance with the dead languages, should be more plain, and more easily accessible, than those languages are themselves" (p. [iv]).

Provenance: Ownership stamp of J.M. Snyder, M.D., and inscriptions of his daughter Kate L. Snyder, and J.M. Snyder, Jr., of Romney, West Virginia, with numerous notes to front and rear endpapers. Kate has added a hasty ink and pencil note to the rear endpaper, "20th day of Jan 1865 / Frank Murphy / Joe Pancake / John D. Parsons / Maynadier Bruce / Lieut. Isaac Parsons, Soldiers of the Rebel Army were at our house this morning before breakfast but did not get any breakfast. Kate Snyder."

Shoemaker 24106.

Price: $500.00