Colophon

The Rise of Silas Lapham
was published in 1885 by
William Dean Howells.

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John Rambow,
and is based on a transcription produced in 1994 by
John Hamm and Al Haines
for
Project Gutenberg
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Internet Archive.

The cover page is adapted from
Boston Street Scene (Boston Common),
a painting completed in 1898⁠–⁠99 by
Edward Mitchell Bannister.
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League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
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