Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Dummer Academy, Byfield, Mass. Instituted A.D. 1763.

Author: 
William Dummer Northend [The Dummer Academy; Governor Dummer Academy; The Governor's Academy]
Publication details: 
Massachusetts: Printed at the Salem Gazette Office. 1844.
£100.00
SKU: 18872

8vo: 53 pp. In modern green wraps with white paper label. Text clear and complete. On aged, stained paper with slight wear to extremities. Pencil addition of one name. One page 'Advertisement', dated August 1844, by 'W. D. N.' (i.e. William Dummer Northend), and four-page anonymous 'Preface', giving a history of the Academy. 22-line newspaper cutting loosely inserted, headed 'Dummer Academy', and with dates March and April 1845 on reverse. Excessively scarce. According to WorldCat no copy in America, and the only copy on COPAC at the British Library. Copy (from British Library copy) of frontispiece lithograph of 'Dummer Academy, Byfield', 'W. P. del', by Bouvé and Sharp, lithographers, Boston, bound in.