Chase, Francis [editor]. Gathered Sketches from the Early History of New Hampshire and Vermont; containing Vivid and Interesting Accounts of a Great Variety of the Adventures of our Forefathers, And of other Incidents of Olden Time. Original and Selected. Claremont, N. H.: Tracy, Kenney & Co., 1856. First Edition. [12394]
Dark green cloth, the boards decorated in blind, the spine in gilt, light soile & scuffing, small fraying at the base of the spine, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches, tight. Several old signature on the front end papers. Frontispiece wood engraving of The Old Man of the Mountain, executed by Kilburn & Mallory of Boston. Additional full page plates: Centre Harbor and Lake Winnipiseogee; Mount Washington, North Conway; and Burning of Royalton. 215 unmarked pp., dark foxing throughout; the center gathering is partly pulled. Fair. Hardcover.
"Gentle reader, you have before you a collection of Sketches, gathered from the early history of New Hampshire and Vermont...In this selection you will find incidents both grave and gay, both pathetic and amusing; some of them of considerable historical importance, and other which some people might think almost trifling. But it is intended that the following pages shall illustrate as fully as possible the character of the times in which our ancestors lived." - Preface.
Relates incidents of colonial and revolutionary times, Indian outrages and captivities, Ethan Allen, Battle of Bennington, "A Witch of Olden Time," etc.
