Author: by the author of Three Experiments of Living (otherwise identified as Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1780-1865)
Title: Elinor Fulton
Publication Information: Philadelphia: George S. Appleton, 148 Chestnut Street 1846
Call #: PS2859 .S65 1849
Book Size: 15.5 cm (H); 10+ cm (L); 1.5 cm (spine)
Cover: green embossed covers (front and back) with geometric design; spine has gold floral design with "Elinor Fulton" in gold. Net grain cloth cover; ruled border with geometric framework inside; medallion in center
Inside Book Covers: plain paper
Paper Edges: unadorned
Illustrations: none
Comments:
- Twelfth Edition
- Epigraph from Hannah More
- "to the Female Community this little Book is Affectionately Dedicated" (all in caps of different sizes)
- note that it was registered by the Act of Congress in 1837 in Massachusetts
- Chapter numbers and titles
- Advertisement (which notes 20,000 copies of Three Experiments of Living)
- Blotched condition of the paper
- Inside page (handwritten): Robert Buchanan from his attached sister Eliza (and on the next line) Washington 1848
- www.famous americans.net suggests that Elinor Fulton was a sequel to Three Experiments for Living , but the dates don't seem right - the first data for Three Experiments for Living is 1838, and Elinor Fulton was registered in
- Hmm. Says that Three Experiments went through 30 editions in the U.S. and at least 10 in England.
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- 19th-Century American Text Production
- Conduct Literature
- Advertising and Marketing of Books
