Four years of fighting : a volume of personal observations with the army and navy ; from the first battle of Bull Run to the fall of Richmond / by Charles Carleton Coffin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896.

Contributor:

Ticknor and Fields, publisher.

Canvassing and Sample Book Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Subscription Publishing Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Booksellers and bookselling.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.

United States.

History.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.

Dummies (Bookselling)--Specimens.

Dummies (Bookselling).

Booksellers and bookselling--Colportage, subscription etc.

Bookbinding--Specimens.

Bookbinding.

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Specimens.

Prospectuses.

Subscription lists (Publishing)

Penn Provenance:

Zinman, Michael (donor) (Canvassing Collection copy)

Physical Description:

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

[Canvassing book].

Place of Publication:

Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1866.

Notes:

Canvassing book consisting of specimen leaves and illustrations; two-leaf prospectus; one-leaf "Orders for Four Years of Fighting" (with half broadside publisher's terms printed on verso); lined subscription order leaves.

Binding: cloth binding, with one leather spine sample mounted to front pastedown.

Copyright 1866 by Charles Carleton Coffin.

"University Press : Welch, Bigelow, & Co.,/ Cambridge" on verso of title-leaf.

Local Notes:

Zinman 293 has owner's inscription on front fly-leaf: "Frank W. Hamlin/ 867 Washington St./ Boston/ Mass." First subscription leaf excised, remainder leaves inscribed with numerous Ms. historical and literary notes (dates, events, deaths, identities of literary pseudonyms, etc.) in same hand as owner's inscription.

Cited in:

Arbour, K. Canvassing books, 293

OCLC:

916599561