Autograph Quotation Signed ('M. M. Ballou') on card, No Place [Boston, MA?] April 25, 1887
NP, 1887. Trade Paperback. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" Tall (oblong small). Near Fine / No Jacket. Item #L055198
1 page (2 1/2' x 4' card; recto only). Holograph quotation from unidentified source: 'We may acquire knowledge, but taste, like genius, is born with us or we have it not.' With holograph signature and date. Slight browning to edges; else a well-preserved example. Ballou (1820-95), Boston publisher, editor and author, son of Universalist clergyman Hosea Ballou; 'noted for his production of popular literature for the masses ... He was the first American editor to demand a set form of construction and type of plot, and as such was the forerunner of the dime novel publishers' (James D. Hart; Oxford Companion to American Literature, 4th edition).
Price: $45.00