Lydia H SIGOURNEY / The Daily Counsellor Signed 1st Edition 1859
Title: The Daily Counsellor Publication: Hartford: Brown and Gross, 1859. Original blind-embossed red cloth, gilt. Mild edgewear and bit of rubbing/light soiling to binding; light even age toning throughout. Overall a tight, clean, nice third edition of this verse collection (with front board and spine gilt bright) in which Sigourney takes a Biblical line and uses it as the inspiration for a poem -- one for every day of the year, January 1st through December 31st.
This particular copy was likely a prize for a school contest, for an inner flyleaf has been inscribed and signed large and bold in brown ink by the author (though recipient's name has been filled in by another hand): Presented to / Andrew Sherratt / for excellence in Reading / with the good wishes of his friend, / L. Hemans of America" and "The Female Milton" -- was an incredibly popular, influential and prolific New England poet starting with her first book, "Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse (1815).
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