Society in America [Two volume set]

New York: Saunders and Otley, 1837. Very Good. New York: Saunders and Otley, 1837. Fourth Edition, published the same year as the first. Two 12mo volumes. xv, [ii], 395pp.; [8]pp. advertisements, [iv] 420 pp. Bound in late 19th-century dark red half calf with five raised bands and gilt stamping to spine; top edges gilt; new endpapers. Boards worn along edges with exposure to extremities and mild chipping to spine ends; touch of wear to joints. Bindings sound. Ownership inscription in pencil dated 1839 to preliminaries of volume II; gift inscription in pen from Emily Bull (?) to a Miss Clark to each volume dated 1856. Dampstaining along top edge of volume II pages, generally faint and text remains legible throughout.

Overall a Very Good set of the English Social Theorist and Abolitionist's record of her travels to the United States, which she undertook to observe for herself the state of the ideals and democratic institutions of America; finding them of course severely lacking as she encountered the slave plantations of Georgia. A wide-ranging study, also touching upon labor, politics, and religion.