FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS: BEING AN ATTEMPT TO TRACE TO THEIR SOURCE PASSAGES AND PHRASES IN COMMON USE
- SIGNED Hardcover
- Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1878
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1878. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Front endpaper detached; hinges cracked. Slight fraying to the spine head. Good. Original cloth. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front blank to a noted abolitionist: "Mrs. Maria W. Chapman/with the respects of/John Bartlett/1878." With Chapman's early pencil signature using her maiden name above Bartlett's inscription.
Maria Weston Chapman was an American abolitionist who was the principal lieutenant of the radical antislavery leader William Lloyd Garrison. She edited THE LIBERATOR, a widely-circulated abolitionist publication.
Maria Weston Chapman was an American abolitionist who was the principal lieutenant of the radical antislavery leader William Lloyd Garrison. She edited THE LIBERATOR, a widely-circulated abolitionist publication.