[Cruikshank/Longfellow/Stowe/Others]. 2 Titles. ++ THE GREATEST PLAGUE OF LIFE Or the Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Servant. Edited by the Brothers Mayhew. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. Lon: George Routledge and Sons, (nd), [ca. 1850]. 12mo. [2], [1]-285, [1] pp. Later ½ leather and cloth. Front cover separated, rear cover lacking. Occasional pencil marginalia. Front of an envelope tipped to verso of ffep (bearing a “London NW May 26/ 73” postmark, addressed to “George Harris Esqr.”). 12 plates (incl frontis); title page illustration. ++ THE TOKEN AND ATLANTIC SOUVENIR, An Offering for Christmas and the New Year. Bos: David H. Williams, et. al., 1842. 12mo. [2], [iii]-vii, [8]-[9], 10-320pp. Includes the poems “Two Locks of Hair” (by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, pp22-23); “Dreams” (Anna Maria Wells, p132); and the stories “The Yankee Girl” (Harriet Beecher Stowe, pp63-81); and “The Exiles of Acadia” (George Bancroft, pp279-289). Orig navy blue leather. Lacking spine, covers loose. Plates foxed, text pages mostly clear. 10 plates (incl frontis). Both books are from the estate of Armida B. Colt.