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Title: The American Quarterly Review, Volume VI
Description: Philadelphia, Carey & Lea, 1829. Hardcover. 534p. Ex-library; REBOUND. A hardcover book that has been rebound in light orange cloth. Library stamps on endpapers and title page. Pages browned and foxed with age. Top corners of title page and table of contents have been torn off; those pages are also coming loose. Top corners also torn off pages 263-290. Otherwise clean and tight. Volume 6 of THE AMERICAN QUARTERLY REVIEW, a journal of history and literature founded by diplomat Robert Walsh. This volume contains the issues for September and December 1829. Includes lengthy reviews of Jonathan Scott's revision of THE ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS, of LAFAYETTE IN AMERICA by A. Levasseur, and of the posthumous works of Thomas Jefferson edited by one of his grandsons. Also contains a lengthy article on the workings and uses of the steam engine. Fair .

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