1856 - The Age of Fable; or, Stories of Gods and Heroes

By Thomas Bulfinch

Published 1856, Second Edition
Sanborn, Carter, and Bazin, Publishers/ Boston

Book dedicated to Longfellow.

Bulfinch's famed Mythology with this being one of the more important cultural works of the last 150 years.

Blue cloth with gilt decorative detail to both boards and spine, illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard, gilt to all page edges, binding secure, pages clean, some very light foxing, corners/ edges bumped and with some wear, illustrated with black and white drawings, 485pp.

Good to very good condition.
Rare Book

Size: 5“ x 8”

AA very handsome copy of this second edition which was originally published he previous year.