xxiv, 286 pp. Dark brown leather spine and corners, red-orange cloth boards, gilt titles, double rules, and decorations in compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, engraved illustrations by F.O.C. Darley. A collection of ruminations on boyhood, country life, marriage, travel, and dreaming by American author Donald Grant Mitchell, published under the pseudonym Ik Marvel. The first two reveries were originally printed in 1849 in the magazine Southern Literary Messenger, and in 1850 the four essays were published in book format to great public acclaim.
