AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE by BRANDER MATTHEWS, AMERICAN BOOK CO., NEW YORK, CINCINNATI & CHICAGO, 1896.
 
American Literature
 
A Brief Chronoplogy of American Literature and Index. Includes a chapter on The Colonial Period and on The End of the Nineteenth Century--and in between
chapters on American writers--B. Franklin, W. Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Bryant, Halleck, Drake, Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Poe, and more.
 
Pale blue green hardcover with gilt title, fancy gilt border art at front title, and fancy gilt endpapers. Nice condition with mild wear and tiny top corner tip bumps. About 7-1/2 x 5-1/2 with 256 pages. Scarce.