Front matter
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NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE.
1859.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, by Harper & Brothers, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.
TO MRS. COVENTRY WADDELL, WHOSE ELEGANT TASTE AND APPRECIATION OF ART, AND WHOSE LIBERAL KINDNESS TO ARTISTS, HAVE FOSTERED AMERICAN GENIUS, This Volume is Inscribed BY HER FRIEND
THE AUTHOR.