[Abbott, Jacob]. Rollo's Museum. Boston: Weeks, Jordan, and Company, 1839. First Edition. [9622]
Faded maroon cloth, plain spine, boards stamped in blind, "Rollo's Musem" in gilt on front, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches. Woodcut engraving as frontispiece of three boys along a stream, with one about to attempt a rescue. 187 pp., 3 additional full-page woodcuts. Good. Hardcover.
The first edition of this book. It has the correct copyright (T. H. Carter) and imprint.
"Weeks, Jordan published a new and uniform edition of the Rollo books in six volumes in 1838 and early 1839...In September 1839 it published the first editions of Experiments and Museum. These books were copyrighted by T. H. Gordon in 1839." - jacobabbott dot com.
Jacob Abbott (1803-1879), b. Hallowell, ME; d. Farmington, ME. He was graduated at Bowdoin College, and studied divinity at Andover. Ordained as a Congregational minister, he was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Amherst College (1825-1829), founder of the Mount Vernon School for Girls (Boston), and organizer of the Eliot Church in Roxbury. In 1839 he moved to Farmington, Maine, where he devoted the rest of his life to literary labor.
"A complete catalogue of his works (which are chiefly for the young) would considerably exceed 200 titles...He also edited, with additions, several historical textbooks, and compiled a series of school readers." - Appletons Encyclopedia.