Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1901.

First edition of Jewett’s last published major work, The Tory Lover is a dramatic historical novel set in the American Revolutionary War. A book differing in theme to her other works, it was her only foray into the genre, with the majority of the action taking place in the author’s beloved Berwick, Maine (then still a part of Massachusetts).

8vo., green cloth lettered and decorated with crest in gilt to upper board; backstrip lettered in gilt; pp. [xi], vi, [iii], 2-405, [iii]; frontis portrait of Mary Hamilton on glossy paper behind mounted tissue guard; a further three black and white illustrations; ex library copy, previously in the possession of the New Canaan Reading Room, with Library number in blue ink to p. [viii], publication page, and ‘Discarded’ stamp to title; binding rubbed to edges with spine ends fraying; library sticker to front paste down; evidence of others being removed from the endpapers; front hinge cracked with webbing showing; stains, spots and ink marks throughout, but particularly affecting the prelims; page 243 torn, almost entirely through; another closed tear to p. 15; a fair copy.