Calver, Amelia J. Every-Day Biography : containing a collection of Brief Biographies arranged for every Day in the Year, as a Book of Reference for the Teacher, Student, Chautauquan and Home Circles. New York: Fowler & Wells Co., 1889. First Edition. [12095]
Red publisher's cloth decorated in black & gilt, spine a bit faded, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, tight. 378 clean pp., 6 pp. publisher's catalogue. Very good. Hardcover.
Each day of the year has several brief biographies of persons born that day. World-wide in scope and time, with the majority being Americans.
Opening at random, November 11 features Bernardo Tasso, an Italian poet; William Edwards, American inventor; Marie Francois Xavier Bichat, a French physiologist; and Thomas Bailey Aldrich, an American poet.
Amelia J. Calver (1844-1929), American Shaker who taught for twenty years at the Mount Lebanon Shaker School for girls.
