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(CATHOLICA). WALWORTH, M.T. The Mission of Death; a Tale of the New York Penal Laws. New York: D. & J. Sadlier & Co.,164 William Street, Boston...Montreal, 1858. 16mo. 281 pp. Orig. cloth. Text sound, but loose in binding. $125.00

 

Wright II, 2624 (1854 edition, no copy found).  Wright reports one copy at Xavier University with an 1855 date, and one undated with the same imprint as our copy, except for a different New York publisher's address.  A very rare work of fictional Catholica demonstrating the unfairness of American penal laws.