Heart World; or, Interesting Incidents of Courtship, Love and Marriage

Presumed first and only edition, preface dated November 1880. Green cloth 8vo; 164, (4)pp. Near Fine with minor rubbing to extremities and scuffing to rear board. Very attractively printed with illustrated vignettes and ornaments throughout--and impeccable title typography. OCLC locates 1 copy at Brigham Young. Organized into four sections: Skirmishing, Engagements, Honeymoon and Married Life. Contents include "Charles Dickens and the Queen," "Mark Twain's Experience," and other conflations/speculations on the romantic plights of popular figures. Mostly unattributed, one exception being "Tom Thumb's Courtship" by P.T. Barnum.

Inscribed by Rhodes in 1882 to "Cousin Sallie;" rear pastedown stamped "General office of Rhodes' Audiphone, Chicago IL, Jul 18 1881." Publisher Richard Silas Rhodes (1842-1902) patented the “Audiphone for the Deaf” in 1879. He had conductive hearing loss following an illness and, dissatisfied by ear horns, invented a device to augment sound waves transmitted through the teeth. It was awarded a medal at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.