A Mirror for Americans; Life and Manners in the United States 1790-1870 as Recorded by American Travellers, Warren S. Tyron, 1952, 3 volumes, complete

A very good three volume set of this work described as:

"a fascinating collection of impressions and facts about life in America, written by Americans who traveled in the new nation between 1790 and 1870....Easterners, southerners, westerners, the literate and the uneducated, sometimes in high displeasure, often with deepest praise, scrutinized the surface of American society and pondered the structure that lay beneath....all the rapid development and great promise of a young nation are examined and recorded in their writings.."

A Mirror for Americans; Life and Manners in the United States 1790-1870 as Recorded by American Travellers. Compiled and Edited by Warren S. Tyron. 3 volumes, complete, comprising:

Volume I: Life in the East; 

Volume II: The Cotton Kingdom; and; 

Volume III: The Frontier Moves West.  

Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 1952 first editions.

A very good set of 3 beige linen hardbacks with printed motif to front cover and title to spine. Pictorial endpapers. With good original dustjackets with some minor nicks to extremities and toned to spines and folds. Now with removable clear protective coverings.

Text is very good throughout - bright and clean and all soundly bound. Some dark toning/staining to top edge and Volume 3 with darkening to upper corner tip on the front - probably been too close to a heat source. Some pages still uncut at top edge. A very good, readable set documenting a key period in American history. Illustrated.

Text in English.

Volume I: xx + 230pp + v (Index); 

Volume II: viii + 231-466pp + v (Index); 

Volume III: viii + 467-793pp + v (Index). 

Dimensions: Each volume approximately 246mm high x 178mm wide x 20-23mm deep.

Weight: Approximately 1.95kg (the set - unpacked).