Published c.1851, in blue cloth boards, with gilt lettering and decorations to the front, cover worn with rubbing and bumping to the corners and edges.  Spine also frayed along the hinge, at the bottom (see photos). In side pages contains inscriptions.  Pages and the binding is intact, however foxing and browning to pages.  Gilted page edges.  Overall in a \'good\' condition for its age.  Reveries of a Bachelor or A Book of the Heart is a book by American author Donald Grant Mitchell, published in 1850 under the pseudonym Ik Marvel. In the text, the author theorizes on boyhood, country life style, marriage, travel, and dreaming.The author pondering and reminiscing upon his youth, his sojours, and his personal growth.