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TALES OF THE PURITANS: THE REGICIDES - THE FAIR PILGRIM - CASTINE
by Delia Salter Bacon
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- Hardcover
- first
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New Haven: Published By A. H. Maltby. Good with no dust jacket. 1831. First Edition. Hardcover. 300 pages; Width: 5" Height: 7.25". Bacon was an American writer of plays and short stories and a sister of the Congregational minister Leonard Bacon. She is best known today for her work on the Shakespeare authorship question. She promoted the theory that the plays attributed to William Shakespeare were written by a group of men, including Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh and others. (Information courtesy of Wikipedia) rebound and possesses a newer front board. The spine has been taped and a hand-written spine label has transparent taping holding it in place in the upper half. The binding is sound. The pages display scattered foxing. Textblock firm. Contains three stories: The Regicides---The Fair Pilgrim---Castine. The last is of the Colonists’ warfare against the French in Canada in 1702. The Regicides is the first American novel to use the Angel of Hadley legend in fiction. New England. Whalley, Goffe, and Dixwell (the judges of Charles I who fled to America) ; Hertel de Rouville, Baron Castine. .
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- Title
- TALES OF THE PURITANS: THE REGICIDES - THE FAIR PILGRIM - CASTINE
- Author
- Delia Salter Bacon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Published By A. H. Maltby
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 1831
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