The Writer; A Series of Original Essays, Moral and Amusing

  • Boston: Russell & Gardner Printers, 1822
By By a Gentleman of Massachusetts" (pseud Gamaliel Bradford)
Boston: Russell & Gardner Printers, 1822. First Edition. 12mo. Original printed board[s]; 131pp. Paper backstrip and rear board are lacking. Front board stained at upper left quarter; text complete; Good and sound.

An early volume of miscellaneous essays, all originally published in the Boston Spectator under Bradford's pseudonym. Bradford (1795-1839), American physician and abolitionist, was the grandfather of prolific early 20th-c. biographer Gamaliel Bradford (1863-1932) and superintendent of Massachusetts General Hospital from 1833 until his death. SHOEMAKER 8166.

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