Bookseller's Broadside: A Sketch of the Life, Last Sickness and Death, of Mrs. Mary Jane Grosvenor (3rd ed.)

Book/bookseller broadside: *A Sketch of the Life, Last Sickness and Death, of Mrs. Mary Jane Grosvenor* (3rd edition). 86 pages, with the last four pages being publisher's advertisements. Published in Baltimore by Coale in 1818. Bound in full tree calf. Features a bookseller's ticket from Benjamin Levy & Company, New Orleans, with text in both French and English. The ticket provides insight into book distribution between the East and Gulf Coasts. Contains an ownership inscription: "Abigail Bates's Book." The book itself is a tribute to the wife of Thomas Grosvenor, a three-term Congressman from New York who later practiced law in Maryland.

Associated People/Businesses

• Levy, Benjamin

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Subjects

• Booksellers and bookselling
• Death
• Biography
• Legislators--United States

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