STOWE, Harriet Beecher "The Mayflower" [Hurst & Co, n.d./c1890s]

STOWE, Harriet Beecher. The Mayflower; or, Sketches of Scenes and Characters Among the Descendants of the Pilgrims.

New York: Hurst & Company, n.d./c1890s. 7.25" x 5.25", 276pp + 1 ad. Green cloth with black decorations and gilt spine titling. Gift inscription from 1899 on FFEP. Bookseller's stamp inside read board. Cloth mildly rubbed on faces and at spine gilt. Textblock clean but toned. Very Good.

Stowe’s The Mayflower gathers a series of moralized sketches portraying New England life among the descendants of the early Puritan settlers. Blending sentiment, local color, and gentle didacticism, the pieces illuminate the social ideals and religious convictions that shaped 19th-century views of the Pilgrim legacy. The collection holds continued historical interest for its early contribution to regional American literature and for the way it frames New England identity just before Stowe’s later rise to international fame.