Bertha and Lily.
Smith, Elizabeth Oakes. Bertha and Lily; or, The Parsonage of Beech Glen. A Romance. New York/Boston/Cincinnati: J.C. Derby/Phillips, Sampson & Co.,/H.W. Derby, 1854.
8vo.; occasional foxing; frontispiece illustration, tissue guard; brown cloth, elaborately blind-stamped, spine stamped in gilt; light wear to extremities.
First edition of Smith’s novel promoting social reform and woman’s rights; dedicated to her mother “who, though dead, yet speaketh.” Wright 2256.
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