Great Truths by Great Authors.

A Dictionary of Aids to Reflection, Quotations of Maxims, Metaphors, Counsels, Cautions, Aphorisms, Proverbs, &c &c. from Writers of all Ages and both Hemispheres. 

Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger, 1868.

Thick 8vo.; full brown morocco stamped in gilt; six spine compartments; upper and lower boards gilt and blind tooled; edges gilt; brown endpapers.

Later edition (first published by Lippincott in 1853). Inscribed: “W.S. Chapman ‘from a friend,’” on the front free endpaper; with William Chapman’s calling card laid in.