THE HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE OF THE TOWN OF NEWBURYPORT (ASSOCIATION COPY)
Newburyport, [Massachusetts]: Printed by E.W. Allen, for sale at the Bookstore of C. Whipple, 1826. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, 6.8 in. x 4.4 in., pp. viii, 120. Presentation copy, as indicated by paste-on note to front pastedown, compliments of John Cushing to Captain George H. Flanders. Flanders bookplate to front free endpaper. Red leather spine over marbled boards with gilt title and bandlines to spine. Publisher's yellow to edges. Light rubbing to edges. Corners nudged and showing; small chip on each spine end. Considerable foxing from title page through p. viii; occasional foxing throughout. Age-toning to pages. Spine and hinges tight. Good Plus. Item #88531
Author Caleb Cushing (1800-1879) was a prominent American politician and diplomat who served in the Massachusetts Legislature in 1825 and 1826, in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1835 to 1843, as the 24th U.S. Attorney General from 1853 to 1857, and as the United States Minister to Spain from 1874 to 1877.
The book is gifted (and signed) by John Newmarch Cushing (1779 - 1849), the author's father and a highly successful merchant and shipowner in Newburyport, who, like the author, was an employer of the recipient of the book, Captain Flanders.
Captain George H. Flanders (1821-1892) "came to Portland in 1849 on the vessel Madonna, commanded by Captain Couch. This was the Madonna's third trip out from New York. Captain Flanders had been in the employ of John and Caleb Cushing. He is a man whose energy and enterprise have done much for the commerce of Portland. He was one of the few who erected brick buildings early in the history of the city. This was a two-story brick built on the southeast corner of Front and Burnside streets in 1859, which is still standing." (from Find a Grave).
Price: $350.00