A very nice assemblage of five first American edition volumes from the Works of Hannah More, inscribed by the publisher to prominent book collector and benefactor to libraries, Benjamin Perkins. Very attractive on the shelf. I don't recall ever handling the complete set of this imprint.
Includes:
More, Hannah. The Works of Hannah More. Complete in Seven Volumes. Vol. I. The Repository Tales. New-York. Published by Harper & Brothers. 1835. 416pp.
Roberts, William. Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More. By William Roberts, Esq. Author of "The Portraiture of a Christian Gentleman." New-York. Published by Harper & Brothers. 1835. 479pp.
More, Hannah. The Works of Hannah More. Complete in Seven Volumes. Vol. IV. Practical Piety.-On the Life and Writings of St. Paul. New-York. Published by Harper & Brothers. 1835. 448pp.
More, Hannah. The Works of Hannah More. Complete in Seven Volumes. Vol. V. Thoughts on the Manners of the Great.-Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World.-Tragedies.-Poems. New-York. Published by Harper & Brothers. 1835. 393pp.
A good + set, bound in leather, generally solid, with moderate foxing.
