AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE FIRST FORTY-ONE YEARS OF THE LIFE OF SYLVANUS COBB, D.D. TO WHICH IS ADDED A MEMORY BY HIS ELDEST SON SYLVANUS COBB, JR.

by Sylvanus Cobb Jr.

Boston 1867 first edition. Universalist Publishing. Hardcover octavo. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Frontispiece portrait of Cobb.552p. Good , some fraying of spine ends; some foxing on initial and final pages. Binding secure. Copy of Wm R Cobb, likely a relative.

Hardcover

First published August 21, 2015

About the author

Sylvanus Cobb, Jr. (June 5, 1823 – July 20, 1887) was an American writer of popular fiction during the mid-19th century. His work was published in the New York Ledger, The Flag of Our Union, The Weekly Novelette, Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, and elsewhere.

Cobb published under various pseudonyms:

Austin Burdick[5]
Charles Castleton[7]
Col. Walter B. Dunlap[5]
Enoch Fitzwhistler[7]
Dr. J.H. Robinson[5]
Dr. S. LeCompton Smith[5]
Symus, the Pilgrim[7]
Amos Winslow, Jr.[7]