BURROUGHS, STEPHEN. 1765-1840.

Memoirs. Hanover, New Hampshire: Benjamin True, 1798; and Boston: Caleb Bingham, 1804.

Memoirs. Hanover, New Hampshire: Benjamin True, 1798; and Boston: Caleb Bingham, 1804.
2 volumes. 8vo (218 x 134 mm) and 12mo (178 x 115 mm). 296; 202 pp. Contemporary sheep, morocco spine labels, both volumes rubbed, with browning, foxing and staining to text, vol I with crude stitched repair to rear joint, K4 fore-edge margin torn touching a few letters, Q1 lower cord torn with loss to a few words, vol II front cover holding by cords.
Provenance: Purchased from M&S Rare Books.

FIRST EDITION, with the rare second volume, of the memoirs of the notorious counterfeiter. "One of the great criminal autobiographies, and an important piece of picaresque Americana" (Streeter). Evans 33478; Howes B1022; Reese Federal Hundred 72; Sabin 9466.