Description

Hardcovers, dark blue cloth in white pictorial dust-jackets. 1,083 pages. Illustrated with half-tine photographs and maps. Edited by Amdrew Oliver. Published by the Harvard Press for the Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts. An unabridged edition of Samuel Curwen’s journal, comparable to Pepys in its lively detailing of the matters of everyday life, and an extraordinaryily valuable source of English social history from 1775 to 1784. It was during those years that Curwen, a Salem merchant, fled from harassment caused by his loyalist activities in America, migrated to England and kept this journal. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked set. Minor tear to inside dust-jakcet flap on volume I, else jackets clean and complete. A fine set in very good or better dust-jackets. A very heavy set, priority and international orders will require extra postage. Scans on request.