The Household of Bouverie, 2 Vols
[Catherine Ann Ware Warfield]. The Household of Bouverie; or, The Elixir of Gold, in Two Volumes. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1860. First edition.
Two twelvemo volumes. 373pp; 413pp + 2pp ads to each volume. Publisher's brown cloth, spined lettered in gilt, endleaves in yellow.
Early drug-related novel about a woman who drinks a hallucinogenic elixir and is later cured by use of electric shock.
From The Ronald K. Siegel Collection of Books on Psychoactive Plants and Drugs.
Spines slightly leaning; light soiling and wear to boards; corners gently bumped; minor foxing to endleaves; juvenile pencil drawing to rear pastedown of volume one; bookplates. Very good. Item #1721
Price: $250.00