By: Middlebrook, Elijah [with Solon Robinson inscriptions]
Price: $3,200.31
Publisher:
New Haven, Conn., Maltby, Goldsmith & Co: 1818
Seller ID: Books009802
Binding: Sewn wrapper
Condition: Good
A remarkably early Solon Robinson piece consisting of his inscriptions in An Agricultural and Economical Almanack For The Year Of Our Lord 1818. [Elijah Middlebrook. New Haven, Conn.: Maltby, Goldsmith & Co.] This constitutes evidence of his hitherto rumoured earliest days of peddling, before rising to prominence in Indiana. He would have been 14 yrs old in Jan. 1818. The inscriptions, in order of placement in the almanac are as follows: "Capt. Eliphalet Hendee [illeg.] Andover Society Tolland County Jan 25th 1818" / "Maltby Goldsmith and Co keeps constantly on hand all kinds books...
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